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>D.3. Command-line Bugzilla Queries</A
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> Users can query Bugzilla from the command line using this suite
of utilities.
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> The query.conf file contains the mapping from options to field
names and comparison types. Quoted option names are "grepped"
for, so it should be easy to edit this file. Comments (#) have
no effect; you must make sure these lines do not contain any
quoted "option"
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> buglist is a shell script which submits a Bugzilla query and
writes the resulting HTML page to stdout. It supports both
short options, (such as "-Afoo" or "-Rbar") and long options
(such as "--assignedto=foo" or "--reporter=bar"). If the first
character of an option is not "-", it is treated as if it were
prefixed with "--default=".
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> The columlist is taken from the COLUMNLIST environment variable.
This is equivalent to the "Change Columns" option when you list
bugs in buglist.cgi. If you have already used Bugzilla, use
<B
CLASS="command"
>grep COLUMLIST ~/.netscape/cookies</B
> to see
your current COLUMNLIST setting.
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> bugs is a simple shell script which calls buglist and extracts
the bug numbers from the output. Adding the prefix
"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=" turns the bug
list into a working link if any bugs are found. Counting bugs is
easy. Pipe the results through <B
CLASS="command"
>sed -e 's/,/ /g' | wc |
awk '{printf $2 "\n"}'</B
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> Akkana says she has good results piping buglist output through
<B
CLASS="command"
>w3m -T text/html -dump</B
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> Download three files:
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> <TT
CLASS="computeroutput"
> <TT
CLASS="prompt"
>bash$</TT
> <B
CLASS="command"
>wget -O
query.conf
'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26157'</B
> </TT
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> <TT
CLASS="computeroutput"
> <TT
CLASS="prompt"
>bash$</TT
> <B
CLASS="command"
>wget -O
buglist
'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26944'</B
> </TT
>
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> <TT
CLASS="computeroutput"
> <TT
CLASS="prompt"
>bash#</TT
> <B
CLASS="command"
>wget -O
bugs
'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26215'</B
> </TT
>
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> Make your utilities executable:
<TT
CLASS="computeroutput"
> <TT
CLASS="prompt"
>bash$</TT
>
<B
CLASS="command"
>chmod u+x buglist bugs</B
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