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Name

ReqPar - request a parameter value

Synopsis

ReqPar <argument list>

Description

This program reads the stdin for a list of Label-RefName pairs. A request is formatted and sent to dbman(8) for each command in the file.

Arguments

Argument processing is done using Unix long argument syntax

--dbman_host <hn>

The host where dbman(8) is running.
If this argument is not present the default is "localhost". The DBMAN_HOST environment variable is used if present.

--fmt <f>

The format of the returned data.

Possible values are:

log - logging format
dbv - value in database format
(F)f - value in F format
(E)e - value in E format
f_raw - print only the value in "F" format
e_raw - print only the value in "E" format

See the online help for more information.

--sep <s>

Set the field separator for some of the reports.

See the online help for more information.

--verbose=<n>

Normally the program does it’s work silently.

The argument is optional, if not given it defaults to 1.

See the online help for possible values.

--help

print the help info and exit.

Environment Variables

DBMAN_HOST

The host where dbman is running. Use this or use the --dbman_host option. if

both are present -dbman_host option overrides DBMAN_HOST

File Format


BM 01-1|CC |
DOSE |HEratio |
DOSE |ESratio1|
DOSE |ESratio2|

Examples

ReqPar < par_list

Manual Page Revision

$Id: ReqPar.1,v 1.3 2007/10/03 17:29:24 kitchen Exp $

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