| <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> |
| <!-- Generated by Apache Maven Doxia Site Renderer 1.6 at 2016-09-04 --> |
| <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> |
| <head> |
| <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> |
| <title>Apache Rat™ – Command Line Support</title> |
| <style type="text/css" media="all"> |
| @import url("./css/maven-base.css"); |
| @import url("./css/maven-theme.css"); |
| @import url("./css/site.css"); |
| </style> |
| <link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/print.css" type="text/css" media="print" /> |
| <meta name="Date-Revision-yyyymmdd" content="20160904" /> |
| <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" /> |
| |
| <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Mate+SC" type="text/css"/> |
| |
| </head> |
| <body class="composite"> |
| <div id="banner"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/" id="bannerLeft"> |
| <img src="https://www.apache.org/img/asf_logo.png" alt="The Apache Software Foundation" title="The Apache Software Foundation" /> |
| </a> |
| <div class="clear"> |
| <hr/> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div id="breadcrumbs"> |
| |
| |
| <div class="xleft"> |
| <span id="publishDate">Last Published: 2016-09-04</span> |
| | <span id="projectVersion">Version: 0.13-SNAPSHOT</span> |
| | <a href="https://www.apache.org/" class="externalLink" title="Apache">Apache</a> |
| > |
| <a href="https://creadur.apache.org/" class="externalLink" title="Creadur">Creadur</a> |
| > |
| <a href="https://creadur.apache.org/rat/" class="externalLink" title="Rat">Rat</a> |
| > |
| <a href="./" title="Apache Rat™">Apache Rat™</a> |
| > |
| Command Line Support |
| </div> |
| <div class="xright"> |
| |
| </div> |
| <div class="clear"> |
| <hr/> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div id="leftColumn"> |
| <div id="navcolumn"> |
| |
| |
| <h5>Parent Project</h5> |
| <ul> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="../index.html" title="Apache Creadur Rat">Apache Creadur Rat</a> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <h5>Project Documentation</h5> |
| <ul> |
| <li class="collapsed"> |
| <a href="project-info.html" title="Project Information">Project Information</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="collapsed"> |
| <a href="project-reports.html" title="Project Reports">Project Reports</a> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <h5>Apache Rat™</h5> |
| <ul> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="../index.html" title="Introducing Rat">Introducing Rat</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="../apidocs/index.html" title="Javadocs">Javadocs</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="../download_rat.cgi" title="Downloads">Downloads</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="../RELEASE_NOTES.txt" title="Changes">Changes</a> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <h5>Running Rat</h5> |
| <ul> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="../apache-rat/index.html" title="From The Command Line">From The Command Line</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="../apache-rat-tasks/index.html" title="With Ant">With Ant</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="../apache-rat-plugin/index.html" title="With Maven">With Maven</a> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <h5>Apache Creadur™</h5> |
| <ul> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://creadur.apache.org" class="externalLink" title="Creadur Project Home">Creadur Project Home</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://creadur.apache.org/tentacles" class="externalLink" title="Apache Tentacles">Apache Tentacles</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://creadur.apache.org/whisker" class="externalLink" title="Apache Whisker">Apache Whisker</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/security/" class="externalLink" title="Security">Security</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/" class="externalLink" title="License">License</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html" class="externalLink" title="Sponsorship">Sponsorship</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html" class="externalLink" title="Thanks">Thanks</a> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <h5>The Apache Software Foundation</h5> |
| <ul> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation" class="externalLink" title="About the Foundation">About the Foundation</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://projects.apache.org" class="externalLink" title="The projects">The projects</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://people.apache.org" class="externalLink" title="The people">The people</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html" class="externalLink" title="How we work">How we work</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#history" class="externalLink" title="Our history">Our history</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/" class="externalLink" title="News">News</a> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <h5>Contribute</h5> |
| <ul> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html" class="externalLink" title="Get Involved">Get Involved</a> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <h5>Committer Info</h5> |
| <ul> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html" class="externalLink" title="ASF Committers' FAQ">ASF Committers' FAQ</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html" class="externalLink" title="New Committers Guide">New Committers Guide</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="../site-publish.html" title="Howto publish this site">Howto publish this site</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://planet.apache.org/committers/" class="externalLink" title="Plant Apache">Plant Apache</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://community.apache.org/" class="externalLink" title="Community">Community</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/legal/" class="externalLink" title="Legal">Legal</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/" class="externalLink" title="Branding">Branding</a> |
| </li> |
| <li class="none"> |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/press/" class="externalLink" title="Media Relations">Media Relations</a> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <a href="https://maven.apache.org/" title="Maven" class="poweredBy"> |
| <img class="poweredBy" alt="Maven" src="https://maven.apache.org/images/logos/maven-feather.png" /> |
| </a> |
| |
| |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div id="bodyColumn"> |
| <div id="contentBox"> |
| <!-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --><!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more --><!-- contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with --><!-- this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. --><!-- The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 --><!-- (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with --><!-- the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at --><!-- --><!-- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 --><!-- --><!-- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software --><!-- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, --><!-- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. --><!-- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and --><!-- limitations under the License. --><!-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --><div class="section"> |
| <h2><a name="About_Apache_Rat8482"></a>About Apache Rat™</h2> |
| <p>Rat audits software distributions, with a special interest in headers. If this isn't quite what you're looking for then take a look at the other products developed by <a class="externalLink" href="http://creadur.apache.org">Apache Creadur</a>™, including <a class="externalLink" href="http://creadur.apache.org/whisker">Apache Whisker</a>™ which audits and generates legal (for example <tt>LICENSE</tt>) documents for complex software distributions.</p> |
| <div class="section"> |
| <h3><a name="Running_from_the_Command_Line"></a>Running from the Command Line</h3> |
| <p>Run from the command line with:</p> |
| <div class="source"> |
| <pre>java -jar apache-rat-0.13-SNAPSHOT.jar --help</pre></div> |
| <p>This will output a help message detailing the command line options available to you.</p></div> |
| <div class="section"> |
| <h3><a name="Adding_license_headers"></a>Adding license headers</h3> |
| <p>Rat can be used to automatically add license headers to files that do not currently have them. Only files that are not excluded by the Rat configurations will be affected.</p> |
| <p>To add license headers use a command such as:</p> |
| <div class="source"> |
| <pre>java -jar apache-rat-0.13-SNAPSHOT.jar --addlicense |
| --copyright "Copyright 2008 Foo" --force |
| /path/to/project</pre></div> |
| <p>This command will add the license header directly to the source files. If you prefer to see which files will be changed and how then remove the "--force" option.</p></div> |
| <div class="section"> |
| <h3><a name="Using_multiple_excludes_from_a_file"></a>Using multiple excludes from a file</h3> |
| <p>It is common to use the Rat with the Maven or Ant plugins and specify a series of files to exclude (such as a README or version control files). If you are using the Rat application instead of a plugin you can specify a series of regex excludes in a file and specify that with the -E option.</p> |
| <div class="source"> |
| <pre>java -jar apache-rat-0.13-SNAPSHOT.jar |
| -E /path/to/project/.rat-excludes |
| -d /path/to/project</pre></div></div> |
| <div class="section"> |
| <h3><a name="Command_Line_Options"></a>Command Line Options</h3> |
| <div class="source"> |
| <pre>usage: java rat.report [options] [DIR|TARBALL] |
| Options |
| -A,--addLicense Add the default license header to any file |
| with an unknown license that is not in the |
| exclusion list. By default new files will |
| be created with the license header, to |
| force the modification of existing files |
| use the --force option. |
| -a,--addlicense Add the default license header to any file |
| with an unknown license that is not in the |
| exclusion list. By default new files will |
| be created with the license header, to |
| force the modification of existing files |
| use the --force option. |
| -c,--copyright <arg> The copyright message to use in the |
| license headers, usually in the form of |
| "Copyright 2008 Foo" |
| -d,--dir Used to indicate source when using |
| --exclude |
| -E,--exclude-file <fileName> Excludes files matching regular expression |
| in <file> Note that --dir is required when |
| using this parameter. |
| -e,--exclude <expression> Excludes files matching wildcard |
| <expression>. Note that --dir is required |
| when using this parameter. Allows multiple |
| arguments. |
| -f,--force Forces any changes in files to be written |
| directly to the source files (i.e. new |
| files are not created) |
| -h,--help Print help for the Rat command line |
| interface and exit |
| -s,--stylesheet <arg> XSLT stylesheet to use when creating the |
| report. Not compatible with -x |
| -x,--xml Output the report in raw XML format. Not |
| compatible with -s</pre></div></div></div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="clear"> |
| <hr/> |
| </div> |
| <div id="footer"> |
| <div class="xright"> |
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
| <footer>Copyright © 2016 The Apache Software Foundation, Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. |
| Apache Creadur, Creadur, Apache Rat, Apache Tentacles, Apache Whisker, Apache and the Apache feather logo are trademarks |
| of The Apache Software Foundation. |
| Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. |
| All other marks mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.</footer> |
| </div> |
| <div class="clear"> |
| <hr/> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </body> |
| </html> |
