GBCH-CVLIST(8)

NAME
gbch-cvlist - dump out GNUbatch variables to a shell script

SYNOPSIS
gbch-cvlist [ -D dir ] [ -e n ] [ -s ] [ -f ] var file outfile

DESCRIPTION
gbch-cvlist converts GNUbatch variables held in the batch spool directory to an executable shell script which may be used to re-install them. This may be useful for backup purposes or for one stage in upgrade from one release of GNUbatch to another.

In addition to options, two arguments are always supplied to gbch-cvlist.

Variable list file
    This is the file containing the attributes of the variables, btsched_vfile in the batch spool directory, by default /usr/spool/batch, or as relocated by re-specifying "SPOOLDIR".

Output file
    This file is created by gbch-cvlist to contain the executable shell script, containing gbch-var(1) commands, which may be used to recreate the variables.

OPTIONS

-D directory
    Specifies the source directory for the variables and var file if not the current directory. It can be specified as $SPOOLDIR or "${SPOOLDIR-/var/spool/gnubatch}" etc and the environment and/or /etc/gnubatch.conf will be interrogated to interpolate the value of the environment variable given.

    If you use this, don't forget to put single quotes around it thus:

     gbch-cvlist -D '${SPOOLDIR-/var/spool/gnubatch}' ...

    otherwise the shell will try to interpret the "$" construct and not gbch-cvlist.

-e n
    Tolerate n errors of the kinds denoted by the other options before giving up trying to convert the file.

-f  Ignore format errors in the saved variable file, skip over invalid entries up to the limit given by the -e option.

-s  Ignore file size errors in the saved variable file (up to the number of total errors given by the -e option).

SEE ALSO
gbch-ciconv(8), gbch-cjlist(8), gbch-uconv(8).

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

AUTHOR
John M Collins, Xi Software Ltd.