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 pgsplit takes a PostgreSQL dump with multiple databases through STDIN and extracts them to the current directory, named with the database name and an .sql extension.
 
-`pgsplit -list` prints the databases contained in the SQL dump.
+`pgsplit -list` prints the database names contained in the SQL dump.
 
 `pgsplit` extracts all databases.