Command Line Options

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This document was last updated on February 11, 2021.

-c | --config-file path-to-config-file

The absolute path to the cobol-check configuration file on your development system. Defaults to [project-root]/config.properties.

-l | --log-level logging-level

The value can be any one of the following, case insensitive:

• off
• fatal
• error
• warn
• info
• debug
• trace

Default is info.

-p | --programs

Name(s) of program(s) to be tested. Default is nothing. Can take a list (space-delimited). Can take a glob.

-t | --tests

Name(s) of test(s) to run. Default is to run all tests located under the program's test suite directory.

-g | --generated-tests

Name of the generated program that carry out the given tests.

-a | --all-tests

Name of the generated file, where all testsuites are concatenated into one file.

-e | --error-log

Name of the generated testsuite error log file.

-s | --source-context

The path to specify the relative paths given in the config file, with the keys:

application.source.directory, application.copybook.directory and test.suite.directory.

-r | --run-directory

The path to specify the relative paths given in the config file. It specifies all paths that is specifically in Cobol Check, like the config file, scripts and generated files.

-h | --help

Displays usage help and does not run the preprocessor.

-v | --version

Displays the version and does not run the preprocessor.