The cmdline query shell scripts in contrib/cmdline was created before the buglist output got templatized. It's time for an update...

This cmdline.tgz contains a slightly updated query.conf, and the completely overhauled scripts makequery, buglist, bugids, bugcount, bugs, bugslink. It works with Bugzilla 2.18, and with some luck, it might even work on solaris (at least I had it running once). It should be more robust and more modular than the previous scripts. Usage is the same for all scripts: you specify the query conditions in form of options, either short: -Sblocker,critical or long: --severity=blocker,critical The mapping from option names to bugzilla fields can be configured in query.conf. * makequery is a separate script only for debugging / dry-run purposes: It translates the command line args into a full query url with ctype=csv. * buglist calls makequery and then wget's the url to stdout, making use of the COLUMNLIST environment variable if present. * bugids calls buglist, saves the result in a temporary 'buglist.csv' file in the same directory, and extracts the bug-ids from it (separated by spaces). * bugcount calls bugids and counts the bugs (using 'wc -w'). * bugs calls bugids and translates the separating spaces into commas * bugslink adds a buglist.cgi url prefix to the result of bugs, printing a full url ready to paste into a browser, the url representing a static bug list. As you can see, all scripts except makequery are pretty trivial. (Btw, four-line shell scripts don't need a full MPL license header, do they?)

What is required to proceed in this case?

Thanks for the update!

2.18: Checking in contrib/cmdline/bugcount; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/bugcount,v <-- bugcount new revision: 1.1.2.1; previous revision: 1.1 done Checking in contrib/cmdline/bugids; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/bugids,v <-- bugids new revision: 1.1.2.1; previous revision: 1.1 done Checking in contrib/cmdline/buglist; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/buglist,v <-- buglist new revision: 1.1.20.1; previous revision: 1.1 done Checking in contrib/cmdline/bugs; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/bugs,v <-- bugs new revision: 1.1.20.1; previous revision: 1.1 done Checking in contrib/cmdline/bugslink; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/bugslink,v <-- bugslink new revision: 1.1.2.1; previous revision: 1.1 done Checking in contrib/cmdline/makequery; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/makequery,v <-- makequery new revision: 1.1.2.1; previous revision: 1.1 done Checking in contrib/cmdline/query.conf; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/query.conf,v <-- query.conf new revision: 1.1.20.1; previous revision: 1.1 done Tip: RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/bugcount,v done Checking in contrib/cmdline/bugcount; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/bugcount,v <-- bugcount initial revision: 1.1 done RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/bugids,v done Checking in contrib/cmdline/bugids; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/bugids,v <-- bugids initial revision: 1.1 done Checking in contrib/cmdline/buglist; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/buglist,v <-- buglist new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1 done Checking in contrib/cmdline/bugs; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/bugs,v <-- bugs new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1 done RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/bugslink,v done Checking in contrib/cmdline/bugslink; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/bugslink,v <-- bugslink initial revision: 1.1 done RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/makequery,v done Checking in contrib/cmdline/makequery; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/makequery,v <-- makequery initial revision: 1.1 done Checking in contrib/cmdline/query.conf; /cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline/query.conf,v <-- query.conf new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1 done