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aegis -File_ATtributes(1)   General Commands Manual  aegis -File_ATtributes(1)

NAME
	aegis file attributes -	modify the attributes of a file

SYNOPSIS
	aegis -File_ATtributes -File attr-file [ option...  ] filename
	aegis -File_ATtributes -Edit [ option...  ] filename
	aegis -File_ATtributes [ option...  ] name=value filename
	aegis -File_ATtributes -UUID number -File filename
	aegis -File_ATtributes -Help

DESCRIPTION
	The  aegis  -File_ATtributes  command is used to set, edit or list the
	attributes of a	file.

	The output of the -List	variant	is suitable for	 use  as  input	 at  a
	later time.

	See aefattr(5) for a description of the	file format.

	Attribute  names  are not case sensitive.  File	attributes with	a name
	starting with an upper case letter will	appear in ael(1) and  aeget(1)
	listings, while	those starting with a lower case letter	will not.

   Shorthand
	If  you	are only setting the values of unique attributes, it is	possi-
	ble to do this from the	command	line, using the	name=value form.

	Note that this usage will replace the first attribute with  the	 given
	name.	If  there  is more than	one attribute of that name, the	second
	and subsequent attributes are unchanged.  If there is no attribute  of
	the given name,	it will	be appended.

	You  may  set  more  than one attribute	at a time, provided that their
	names are unique.  Attribute names are not case	sensitive.

   Known Attribute Names
	While many of the anticipated uses of file  attributes	are  to	 allow
	projects  to  attach  their  own specialized data to individual	files,
	Aegis also uses	some attributes	for its	own  purposes  (and  arguably,
	should	always	have done so to	maximize forwards compatibility	across
	Aegis upgrades).

	aede-policy-crlf-allowed
		boolean.  If true, the crlf policy of the aede-policy(1)  com-
		mand does not apply.

	aede-policy-escape-hyphen
		boolean.   If false, the escape-hyphen policy of the aede-pol-
		icy(1) command does not	apply.

	aede-policy-line-length
		integer.  The maximum allowed line length in  the  line-length
		policy of the aede-policy(1) command; infinity if 0.

	aede-policy-tabs-allowed
		boolean.   If  true,  the no-tabs policy of the	aede-policy(1)
		command	does not apply.

	aeipass-options:assign-file-uuid
		boolean.  If false, aeipass will not assign a  fresh  UUID  to
		this  file.  This flag is set by aedist	-rec if	the action as-
		sociated with the file is a create and the file	is missing the
		UUID.  This behaviour is needed	to prevent the effect of  hav-
		ing  different	UUIDs  assigned	 to the	same file in different
		repositories.

	aemakegen:noinst
		boolean.  If true, aemakegen(1)	will not cause the program  to
		be  installed.	Usually	attached to the	source file containing
		the main function, or to script	files.	Defaults to  false  if
		not defined (i.e. do install program).

	content-type
		This  is  taken	 directly from the MIME	definition of Content-
		Type.  It remembers what sort of file this is.	It is  antici-
		pated  that  a	diff tool, for example,	could make use of this
		attribute to provide format-specific file difference listings.
		Some change set	interchange formats are	 capable  of  carrying
		this information.

	entire-source-hide
		boolean.   If  true,  this  file is not	included by the	aedist
		-entire-source flag.  The aetar	and aerevml commands work sim-
		ilarly.	 Think of it as	a "local only" flag.

	foreign-copyright
		boolean.  If true, this	file will not be checked by the	 aede-
		policy(1) copyright validation.

	local-source-hide
		boolean.   If true, this file is not included by aedist	change
		sets.  The aetar and aerevml commands work similarly.	Change
		sets  which  contain  only thee	files will be omitted from the
		aedist -inventory output.  Think of it as a "local only" flag.

	test/arch/elapsed
		This is	used to	estimate test duration.	 See aet(1)  for  more
		information.

OPTIONS
	The following options are understood:

	-BAse_RElative
		This option may	be used	to cause relative filenames to be con-
		sidered	 relative  to  the  base of the	source tree.  See aeu-
		conf(5)	for the	corresponding user preference.

	-CUrrent_RElative
		This option may	be used	to cause relative filenames to be con-
		sidered	relative to the	current	directory.   This  is  usually
		the  default.  See aeuconf(5) for the corresponding user pref-
		erence.

	-Change	number
		This option may	be used	to specify a particular	change	within
		a  project.   See  aegis(1) for	a complete description of this
		option.

	-Help
		This option may	be used	to obtain more information  about  how
		to use the aegis program.

	-List
		This  option may be used to obtain a list of suitable subjects
		for this command.  The list may	be more	general	than expected.

	-Project name
		This option may	be used	to select  the	project	 of  interest.
		When  no -Project option is specified, the AEGIS_PROJECT envi-
		ronment	variable is consulted.	If that	does  not  exist,  the
		user's	$HOME/.aegisrc	file is	examined for a default project
		field (see aeuconf(5) for more information).  If that does not
		exist, when the	user is	only working on	changes	within a  sin-
		gle  project, the project name defaults	to that	project.  Oth-
		erwise,	it is an error.

	-TERse
		This option may	be used	to cause listings to produce the  bare
		minimum	 of  information.   It	is  usually  useful  for shell
		scripts.  -Universal_Unique_IDentifier number This option  may
		be used	to set the UUID	of a file.

	-Verbose
		This option may	be used	to cause aegis to produce more output.
		By  default  aegis  only produces output on errors.  When used
		with the -List option this option causes column	headings to be
		added.

	-Wait	This option may	be used	to require Aegis commands to wait  for
		access	locks,	if  they  cannot be obtained immediately.  De-
		faults to the user's lock_wait_preference  if  not  specified,
		see aeuconf(5) for more	information.

	-No_Wait
		This  option  may  be used to require Aegis commands to	emit a
		fatal error if access locks cannot  be	obtained  immediately.
		Defaults  to the user's	lock_wait_preference if	not specified,
		see aeuconf(5) for more	information.

	See also aegis(1) for options common to	all aegis commands.

	All options may	be abbreviated;	the abbreviation is documented as  the
	upper case letters, all	lower case letters and underscores (_) are op-
	tional.	 You must use consecutive sequences of optional	letters.

	All  options  are case insensitive, you	may type them in upper case or
	lower case or a	combination of both, case is not important.

	For example: the arguments "-project", "-PROJ" and "-p"	are all	inter-
	preted to mean the -Project option.  The argument "-prj" will  not  be
	understood, because consecutive	optional characters were not supplied.

	Options	 and  other command line arguments may be mixed	arbitrarily on
	the command line, after	the function selectors.

	The GNU	long option names are understood.  Since all option names  for
	aegis are long,	this means ignoring the	extra leading '-'.  The	"--op-
	tion=value" convention is also understood.

RECOMMENDED ALIAS
	The recommended	alias for this command is
	csh%	alias aefa 'aegis -fat \!* -v'
	sh$	aefa(){aegis -fat "$@" -v}

ERRORS
	It  is	an  error  if  the current user	is not an administrator	of the
	specified project.
	It is an error if the current user is not the developer	of the	speci-
	fied change.
	It is an error if the file is not included in the specified change.

EXIT STATUS
	The  aegis  command  will  exit	 with a	status of 1 on any error.  The
	aegis command will only	exit with a status of 0	if there  are  no  er-
	rors.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
	See aegis(1) for a list	of environment variables which may affect this
	command.    See	  aepconf(5)  for  the	project	 configuration	file's
	project_specific field for how to set environment  variables  for  all
	commands executed by Aegis.

SEE ALSO
	aeca(5)	modify the attributes of a change

	aefattr(5)
		file attributes	file format

COPYRIGHT
	aegis version 4.25.D510
	Copyright  (C)	1991,  1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
	2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,	2004, 2005,  2006,  2007,  2008,  2009,	 2010,
	2011, 2012 Peter Miller

	The  aegis  program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
	the 'aegis -VERSion License' command.  This is free software  and  you
	are  welcome  to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details
	use the	'aegis -VERSion	License' command.

AUTHOR
	Peter Miller   E-Mail:	 pmiller@opensource.org.au
	/\/\*		  WWW:	 http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/

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