aegis(5) File Formats Manual aegis(5)
NAME
aegis - meta-data file format
DESCRIPTION
The files used by the aegis program all have the same format. Some of the files used by aegis are created and maintained by humans, and
some are created an maintained by aegis itself. The various manual entries say which is which.
LEXICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Names are any C identifier. Comments are C-style comments (or C++ or shell). Numbers are decimal, octal or hexadecimal, as for C con-
stants. Whitespace (spaces, tabs and newlines) are ignored except in strings or as they serve to separate tokens.
Strings are C-style strings, and similar to C, sequential string constants are silently catenated together.
In addition, there is a style of @string@ which use at-signs (@) for quoting. Unlike the C style of string, newlines are allowed within
these strings. To get an at-sign in such a string, double the at-sign. There is no other escape mechanism available.
GRAMMAR
The format of all aegis files is described by a yacc (1) grammar.
%%
file
: field_list
;
A file contains a field list.
field_list
: /* empty */
| field_list field
;
A field list is zero or more fields.
field
: NAME '=' value ';'
;
A field is set by giving a name and a value.
value
: NAME
| INTEGER
| STRING
| structure
| list
;
A value may be a member of an enumeration (NAME), or an integer constant, or a literal string. More complex values may be constructed
from these simple values.
structure
: '{' field_list '}'
;
A structure is a grouped list of fields.
list
: '[' list_body ']'
;
list_body
: /* empty */
| value_list
| value_list ','
;
value_list
: value
| value_list ',' value
A list is a sequential list of values separated by commas. It may be empty, or it may have a trailing comma.
SEMANTICS
The types of the values must match those in the definition of the file. See the relevant man pages for more information.
Files which are rewritten by aegis will lose any comments placed in them. When time fields are emitted by aegis they are usually followed
by a human readable date in a comment.
SEE ALSO
aegis(1)
a project change supervisor
aecattr(5)
change attribute file format
aecstate(5)
change state file format
aedir(5)
directory structures
aegstate(5)
aegis state file
aepattr(5)
project attribute file format
aepconf(5)
project configuration file format
aepstate(5)
project state file format
aesub(5)
available command substitutions
aeuconf(5)
user configuration file format
aeustate(5)
user state file format
COPYRIGHT
aegis version 4.24.3.D001
Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 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: millerp@canb.auug.org.au
//* WWW: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/
Reference Manual Aegis aegis(5)