proclint(1)							    2008-12-09							       proclint(1)

NAME

       proclint - Lint procmail rc files for proper syntax

SYNOPSIS

	 proclint [options] <procmail *.rc files>

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	   Display short help.

       -i, --includerc
	   Scan and possibly list files included in code with INCLUDERC statements.

       -I, --noinclude
	   Do not scan INCLUDERC references (default).

       -l, --list
	   List lines in the procmail recipe files.

       -L, --nolist
	   Do not list lines, except for errors (default).

       -p, --procmailrc
	   Check $HOME/.procmailrca

DESCRIPTION

       Check procmail rc files for proper syntax, recipe nesting, etc. The output consists of: "LINE-NUMBER:FLAG:DEPTH: text". FLAG is one of:

	   R  recipe
	   C  condition
	   A  action (redirect, '!', or pipe, '|')
	   F  folder
	   =  assignment
	   +  continuation
	   E  *line may be erroneous*

       DEPTH indicates the depth of the recipe nesting and is shown only when greater than zero.

BUGS

       There are many bugs. E.g. multiline handling is not done (continued strings).

       Please regard the output as advisory only.x

STATUS CODES

       Program returns non-zero in case problem is found.

ENVIRONMENT

       None.

FILES

       None.

SEE ALSO

       procmail(1)

AUTHORS

       Program was written by Alan K. Stebbens <aks@sgi.com>.

       This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>.  Released under license GNU GPL v2 or (at your option) any later
       version. For more information about license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.

proclint							    2008-12-09							       proclint(1)