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.\"
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.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
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.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 1997, 2006-2008 Peter Miller
.\"
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.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
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.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1996, 1999, 2006-2008 Peter Miller
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.\" etc/libdir.so. Generated from libdir.so.in by configure.
.\"
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.TH "\*(n)" 1 \*(N) "Reference Manual"
.SH NAME
aegis report \- report generator
.XX "aer(1)" "report generator"
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B \*(n)
[
.IR option \&...
]
.IR report-name
.br
.B \*(n)
[
.IR option \&...
]
.B -File
.IR filename
.br
.B \*(n)
.B -RePorT
.B -List
.br
.B \*(n)
.B -Help
.br
.B \*(n)
.B -VERSion
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.I \*(n)
command is used to
generate reports from \*(n)' database.
Reports are specified in a C-like language
described in the
.IR aer (5)
manual entry.
.PP
For a list of the reports available on your system,
use the '\fIaer -list\fP' command.
These reports live in the
.I \*(D)/report
directory,
and it initially contains the reports distributed with \*(n),
however sites are free to add their own here.
.SH WRITING REPORT SCRIPTS
Getting started writing report scripts can be difficult. You are best to
have a look at the reports distributes with Aegis, and try to adapt them.
The report script files are kept in the \fI\*(D)/report\fP directory.
.PP
For information about the data structures which may be accessed from a
report script, you need to see the relevant manual entries:
.TP 8n
the projects list
See \fIaegstate\fP(1) for the member fields.
.TP 8n
a specific project
See \fIaepstate\fP(1) for the member fields.
.TP 8n
a specific change
See \fIaecstate\fP(1) for the member fields.
.TP 8n
a specific file
See \fIaefstate\fP(1) for the member fields.
.PP
Each of the above man pages also contains a section towards the end which
specifically addresses report generator use, usually with code fragments.
.SH OPTIONS
The following options are understood:
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 2006-2008 Peter Miller.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.TP 8n
.B -BaseLine
This option may be used to specify that
the project baseline is the subject of the command.
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005-2008 Peter Miller
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.TP 8n
\fB-BRanch\fP \fInumber\fP
This option may be used to specify a
different branch for the origin file,
rather than the baseline.
(See also \fB\-TRunk\fP option.\)
Please Note: the \fB-BRanch\fP option does not take a project name,
just the branch number suffix.
.TP 8n
\fB\-GrandParent\fP
This option may be used to specify the grandparent branch (one up from
the current branch) for the origin file, rather than the baseline.
(The \-grandparent option is the same as the \[lq]\-branch ..\[rq] option.)
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 2003, 2006-2008 Peter Miller.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.TP 8n
\fB-Change\fP \fInumber\fP
This option may be used to specify a particular change within a project.
See \fIaegis\fP(1) for a complete description of this option.
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 2001, 2005-2008 Peter Miller
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.TP 8n
\fB-DELta\fP \fInumber\fP
.br
This option may be used to specify a particular
delta in the project's history to copy the file from,
rather than the most current version.
If the delta has been given a name
(see
.IR aedn (1)
for how)
you may use a delta name instead of a delta number.
It is an error if the delta specified does not exist.
Delta numbers start from 1 and increase;
delta 0 is a special case meaning \[lq]when the branch started\[rq].
.TP 8n
\fB-DELta_Date\fP \fIstring\fP
.br
This option may be used to specify a particular date and time in the
project's history to copy the file from, rather than the most current
version. It is an error if the string specified cannot be interpreted
as a valid date and time. Quote the string if you need to use spaces.
.TP 8n
\fB-DELta_From_Change\fP \f[I]number\fP
.br
This option may be used to specify a particular project delta from its
change number.
.TP 8n
\fB-File\fP \fIfilename\fP
.br
Take the report script from the specified file, rather than looking for
the named report in the library of reports distributed with \*(N).
The filename \[lq]\-\[rq] is understood to mean the standard input.
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 2006-2008 Peter Miller.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.TP 8n
.B -Help
.br
This option may be used to obtain more information about how to use the
.I \*(n)
program.
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 2006-2008 Peter Miller.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.TP 8n
.B -List
.br
This option may be used to obtain a list of suitable subjects for this
command.
The list may be more general than expected.
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 2001, 2006-2008 Peter Miller
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.TP 8n
\fB\-Output\fP \fIfilename\fP
This option may be used to specify the output file.
The output is sent to the standard output by default.
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 2006-2008 Peter Miller.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.TP 8n
\fB-Project\fP \fIname\fP
This option may be used to select the project of interest.
When no
.B -Project
option is specified,
the
.I AEGIS_PROJECT
environment variable is consulted.
If that does not exist,
the user's
.I $HOME/.aegisrc
file is examined for a default project field (see
.IR aeuconf (5)
for more information).
If that does not exist,
when the user is only working on changes within a single project,
the project name defaults to that project.
Otherwise,
it is an error.
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 2002, 2006-2008 Peter Miller.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.TP 8n
.B -TERse
.br
This option may be used to cause listings to
produce the bare minimum of information.
It is usually useful for shell scripts.
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005-2008 Peter Miller
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.TP 8n
.B -TRunk
.br
This option may be used to specify
the project trunk for the origin file,
rather than the baseline.
(See also \fB\-BRanch\fP option,
the -trunk option is the same as the \[lq]\-branch \-\[rq] option.)
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1993, 2006-2008 Peter Miller
.\" Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Walter Franzini
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.TP 8n
.B -UNFormatted
.br
This option may be used with most listings
to specify that the column formatting is not to be performed.
This is useful for shell scripts.
.TP 8n
.B -Page-Header
This option requests that page headings be present in listings and reports.
This is the default.
.TP 8n
.B -No-Page-Header
This option requests that page headings be omitted from listings and reports.
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 2002, 2006-2008 Peter Miller.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.TP 8n
.B -Verbose
This option may be used to cause \*(n) to produce more output.
By default \*(n) only produces output on errors.
When used with the
.B -List
option
this option causes column headings to be added.
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 2006-2008 Peter Miller.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.r)
.PP
All options may be abbreviated;
the abbreviation is documented as the upper case letters,
all lower case letters and underscores (_) are optional.
You must use consecutive sequences of optional letters.
.PP
All options are case insensitive,
you may type them in upper case or lower case or a combination of both,
case is not important.
.PP
For example:
the arguments "-project, "-PROJ" and "-p" are
all interpreted to mean the \fB-Project\fP option.
The argument "-prj" will not be understood,
because consecutive optional characters were not supplied.
.PP
Options and other command line arguments may be
mixed arbitrarily on the command line,
after the function selectors.
.br
.ne 4
.PP
The GNU long option names are understood.
Since all option names for
.I \*(n)
are long,
this means ignoring the extra leading '-'.
The "\fB--\fIoption\fB=\fIvalue\fR" convention is also understood.
.SH RECOMMENDED ALIAS
The recommended alias for this command is
.nf
.ta 8n 16n
csh% alias aer '\*(n) \e!* -v'
sh$ aer(){\*(n) "$@" -v}
.fi
.SH SEE ALSO
.TP 8n
.IR ael (1)
list (possibly) interesting things
.TP 8n
.IR aer (5)
report script language definition
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2006-2008 Peter Miller
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.SH EXIT STATUS
The
.I \*(n)
command will exit with a status of 1 on any error.
The
.I \*(n)
command will only exit with a status of 0 if there are no errors.
.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See \fIaegis\fP(1) for a list of environment variables which may affect
this command.
See \fIaepconf\fP(5) for the project configuration file's
\fIproject_\%specific\fP field for how to set environment variables for
all commands executed by Aegis.
.\"
.\" aegis - project change supervisor
.\" Copyright (C) 1991-1995, 1997, 2006-2008 Peter Miller
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see
.\" .
.\"
.br
.ne 2i
.SH COPYRIGHT
.ds v) 4.24.3
.ds V) 4.24.3.D001
.ds o) 0
.ds p) 4.25
.ds u) 4.24
.ds Y) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
\*(n) version \*(V)
.br
.if t .ds C) \(co
.if n .ds C) (C)
Copyright \*(C) \*(Y) Peter Miller
.PP
The \*(n) program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
for details use the '\fI\*(n) -VERSion License\fP' command.
This is free software
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
for details use the '\fI\*(n) -VERSion License\fP' command.
.br
.ne 1i
.SH AUTHOR
.TS
tab(;);
l r l.
Peter Miller;E-Mail:;millerp@canb.auug.org.au
\f(CW/\e/\e*\fR;WWW:;http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/
.TE