Users can query Bugzilla from the command line using + this suite of utilities. +
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" +
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 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 + grep COLUMLIST ~/.netscape/cookies 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 $2 "\n"}' +
Akkana says she has good results piping buglist output through + w3m -T text/html -dump +
Download three files: +
bash$ + wget -O query.conf 'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26157' + +
bash$ + wget -O buglist 'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26944' + +
bash# + wget -O bugs 'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26215' + +
Make your utilities executable: + bash$ + chmod u+x buglist bugs + +