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       NAME   gramps - Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming Sys‐ tem.

       SYNOPSIS
              gramps  [-?  |  --help] [--usage] [--version] [-l] [-L] [-u | --force-unlock] [-O |
              --open= DATABASE [-f | --format= FORMAT] [-i  |  --import=  FILE  [-f  |  --format=
              FORMAT]]  [--remove=  FAMILY_TREE_PATTERN]  [-e  |  --export=  FILE [-f | --format=
              FORMAT]]  [-a  |  --action=  ACTION]  [-p  |  --options=  OPTION‐  STRING]]  [FILE]
              [--version]

       DESCRIPTION
              Gramps  is a Free/OpenSource genealogy program. It is written in Python, using  the
              GTK+/GNOME interface.  Gramps should seem familiar to anyone  who  has  used  other
              genealogy  programs  before  such  as Family Tree  Maker (TM),   Personal Ancestral
              Files (TM), or the GNU Geneweb.  It supports importing of the ever  popular  GEDCOM
              format which is used world wide by almost all other genealogy software.

       OPTIONS

              gramps FILE
                     When  FILE is given (without any flags) as a family tree name or as a family
                     tree database directory, then it is opened and an  interactive   session  is
                     started.  If  FILE  is a file format under‐ stood by Gramps, an empty family
                     tree is created  whose name is based  on  the FILE  name  and  the  data  is
                     imported  into it. The rest of the options is ignored. This way of launching
                     is suit‐ able for using gramps as a handler for genealogical  data  in  e.g.
                     web  browsers. This invocation can accept any data format  native to gramps,
                     see below.

              -f , --format= FORMAT
                     Explicitly specify format of FILE given by preceding -i , or -e  option.  If
                     the -f option is not given for any FILE , the format of that file is guessed
                     according to its extension or MIME-type.

                     Formats  available for export are gramps-xml  (guessed  if  FILE  ends  with
                     .gramps  ),  gedcom  (guessed  if  FILE ends with .ged ), or any file export
                     available through the Gramps plugin system.

                     Formats available for import are gramps-xml , gedcom ,  gramps-pkg  (guessed
                     if FILE ends with .gpkg ), and geneweb (guessed if FILE ends with .gw ).

                     Formats  available  for  export  are  gramps-xml , gedcom , gramps-pkg , wft
                     (guessed if FILE ends with .wft ), geneweb.

              -l     Print a list of known family trees.

              -L     Print a detailed list of known family trees.

              -u , --force-unlock
                     Unlock a locked database.

              -O , --open= DATABASE
                     Open DATABASE which  must be an  existing  database  directory  or  existing
                     family  tree  name.  If no action, import or export options are given on the
                     command line then an interactive ses‐ sion is started using that database.

              -i , --import= FILE
                     Import data from FILE . If you haven't specified a database, then  an  empty
                     database is created for you called Family Tree x (where x is an incrementing
                     number).

                     When more than one input file is given, each has to be preceded by -i  flag.
                     The  files  are imported in the specified order, i.e.  -i FILE1 -i FILE2 and
                     -i FILE2 -i FILE1 might  produce  different  gramps  IDs  in  the  resulting
                     database.

              -e , --export= FILE
                     Export  data  into  FILE  . For gramps-xml , gedcom , wft , gramps-pkg , and
                     geneweb , the FILE is the name of the resulting file.

                     When more than one output file is given, each has to be preceded by -e flag.
                     The files are written one by one, in the specified order.

              -a , --action= ACTION
                     Perform  ACTION  on  the  imported  data. This is done after all imports are
                     successfully completed. Currently available  actions are summary  (same   as
                     Reports->View->Summary),  check  (same  as Tools->Database Processing->Check
                     and Repair), report (generates report),  and  tool  (runs  a  plugin  tool).
                     Both report and tool need the OPTIONSTRING supplied by the -p flag).

                     The  OPTIONSTRING  should  satisfy  the  following  conditions:  It must not
                     contain any  spaces. If some arguments need to include  spaces,  the  string
                     should  be  enclosed  with  quotation  marks, i.e., follow the shell syntax.
                     Option string is a list of  pairs  with name and  value  (separated  by  the
                     equality sign).  The name and value pairs must be separated by commas.

                     Most  of  the  report or tools options are specific for each report or tool.
                     However, there are some common options.

                     name=name This mandatory option determines which report or tool will be run.
                     If  the  supplied name does not correspond to any  available report or tool,
                     an error message will be printed followed by the list of  available  reports
                     or tools (depending on the ACTION ).

                     show=all This will produce the list of names for all options available for a
                     given report or tool.

                     show=optionname  This  will  print  the  description  of  the  functionality
                     supplied by optionname, as well as what are the acceptable types and  values
                     for this option.

                     Use the above options to find out everything about a given report.

              When more than one output action is given, each has to be preceded  by -a flag. The
              actions are performed one by one, in the specified order.

              -d , --debug= LOGGER_NAME
                     Enables  debug logs for development and testing. Look at the source code for
                     details

              --version
                     Prints the version number of gramps and then exits

       Operation
              If the first argument on the command line does not start with dash (i.e. no  flag),
              gramps  will attempt to open the file with the name given by the first argument and
              start interactive session, ignoring the rest of the command line arguments.

              If the  -O flag is given, then gramps will try opening the  supplied  database  and
              then work with that data, as instructed by the further command line parameters.

              With  or without the -O flag, there could be multiple imports, exports, and actions
              specified further on the command line by using -i , -e , and -a flags.

              The order of -i , -e , or -a options does not matter. The actual order  always  is:
              all  imports (if any) -> all actions (if any) -> all  exports (if any). But opening
              must always be first!

              If no -O or -i option is given, gramps will launch its main window  and  start  the
              usual  interactive  session  with  the  empty  database,  since there is no data to
              process, anyway.

              If no -e  or -a options are given, gramps will launch its main window and start the
              usual  interactive  session  with  the  database  resulted  from  all imports. This
              database resides in the import_db.grdb under ~/.gramps/import directory.

              The error encountered during import, export, or action, will be  either  dumped  to
              stdout (if  these  are exceptions handled by gramps) or to stderr (if these are not
              handled). Use usual shell redirections of stdout and stderr to  save  messages  and
              errors in files.

       EXAMPLES
              To open an existing family tree and import an xml file into it, one may type:
                 gramps -O 'My Family Tree' -i ~/db3.gramps

              The  above  changes  the  opened family tree, to do the  same, but import both in a
              temporary family tree and start an interactive session, one may type:
                 gramps -i 'My Family Tree' -i ~/db3.gramps

              To import four databases (whose formats can be  determined from  their  names)  and
              then check the resulting database for errors, one may type:
                 gramps -i file1.ged -i file2.tgz -i ~/db3.gramps -i file4.wft -a check

              To  explicitly specify the formats in the above  example,  append  file‐ names with
              appropriate -f options:
                 gramps -i file1.ged -f gedcom -i file2.tgz  -f  gramps-pkg  -i  ~/db3.gramps  -f
                 gramps-xml -i file4.wft -f wft -a check

              To  record  the database resulting from all imports, supply -e flag  (use -f if the
              filename does not allow gramps to guess the format):
                 gramps -i file1.ged -i file2.tgz -e ~/new-package -f gramps-pkg

              To import three databases and start interactive gramps session with the result:
                 gramps -i file1.ged -i file2.tgz -i ~/db3.gramps

              To run the Verify tool from the commandline and output the result to stdout:
                 gramps -O 'My Family Tree' -a tool -p name= verify

              Finally, to start normal interactive session type:
                 gramps

       ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
              The program checks whether these environment variables are set:

              LANG  -  describe, which language to use: Ex.: for polish  language  this  variable
              has to be set to pl_PL.UTF-8.

              GRAMPSHOME  -  if  set,  force  Gramps  to  use  the  specified  directory  to keep
              program settings and databases there. By default, this  variable  is  not  set  and
              gramps  assumes that the folder with all databases and  pro‐ file  settings  should
              be  created  within  the  user  profile  folder (described by environment  variable
              HOME for Linux  or  USERPROFILE  for Windows 2000/XP).

       CONCEPTS
              Supports a python-based plugin system, allowing import and export writ‐ ers, report
              generators, tools, and display filters to be added   without  modification  of  the
              main program.

              In  addition  to  generating  direct  printer output, report generators also target
              other systems, such as LibreOffice.org , AbiWord , HTML,  or  LaTeX  to  allow  the
              users to modify the format to suit their needs.

       KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

       FILES
          ${PREFIX}/bin/gramps

          ${PREFIX}/lib/python3/dist-packages/gramps/

          ${PREFIX}/share/

          ${HOME}/.gramps

       AUTHORS
              Donald Allingham <don@gramps-project.org> http://gramps-project.org/

              This  man  page was originally written by: Brandon L. Griffith <brandon@debian.org>
              for inclusion in the Debian GNU/Linux system.

              This man page is currently maintained by: Gramps project <xxx@gramps-project.org>

       DOCUMENTATION
              The user documentation is available through standard web browser  in  the  form  of
              Gramps Manual.

              The       developer      documentation      can      be      found      on      the
              http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Portal:Developers portal.

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