There are a suite of Unix utilities for searching Bugzilla from the - command line. They live in the - contrib/cmdline - directory. However, they - have not yet been updated to work with 2.16 (post-templatisation.). - There are three files - query.conf, - buglist and bugs.
query.conf - 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".
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=".
The column list 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, grep for COLUMNLIST - in your cookies file to see your current COLUMNLIST setting.
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 - sed -e 's/,/ /g' | wc | awk '{printf $2 "\n"}' -
Akkana Peck says she has good results piping - buglist output through - w3m -T text/html -dump -