04-28-2010
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Originally Posted by
bwhitehd
I think they were simply counting on an old bug in the previous version.
Not a bug but undefined behavior. The bug was in the script, not in the ksh implementation.
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lp-grab-attachments
GRAB-ATTACHMENTS(1) General Commands Manual GRAB-ATTACHMENTS(1)
NAME
grab-attachments - downloads attachments from a Launchpad bug
SYNOPSIS
grab-attachments [options] bug-number...
grab-attachments -h
DESCRIPTION
grab-attachments is a script to download all attachments from a Launchpad bug report or bug reports with a source package task into a
directory named after the bug e.g. bug-1.
OPTIONS
Listed below are the command line options for grab-attachments:
bug-number
Specifies the Launchpad bug number that the script should download attachments from.
-h, --help
Display a help message and exit.
-l INSTANCE, --lpinstance=INSTANCE
Use the specified instance of Launchpad (e.g. "staging"), instead of the default of "production".
--no-conf
Do not read any configuration files, or configuration from environment variables.
-d, --duplicates
Download attachments from duplicates too.
-p SRCPACKAGE, --package=SRCPACKAGE
Download attachments from all bugs with a task for this source package.
AUTHOR
lp-grab-attachments was written by Daniel Holbach and this manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies.
Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3.
lptools 10 August 2008 GRAB-ATTACHMENTS(1)