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NAME

       gramps  -  Genealogical  Research  and  Analysis Management Programming
       System.

SYNOPSIS

       gramps  [-?|--help]  [--usage]  [--version]  [-l]   [-u|--force-unlock]
       [-O|--open=   DATABASE   [-f|--format=   FORMAT]]   [-i|--import=  FILE
       [-f|--format=   FORMAT]]   [-i|--import=   ...]    [-e|--export=   FILE
       [-f|--format=    FORMAT]]    [-a|--action=    ACTION]    [-p|--options=
       OPTIONSTRING]] [ 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
              understood 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
              suitable  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  grdb,  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, and iso (never
              guessed, always specify with -f option).

       -l     Print a 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
              session is started using that database.

       -i,--import= FILE
              Import  data from FILE. If you haven’t specified a database then
              a temporary database is used; this  is  deleted  when  you  exit
              gramps.

              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.

       -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
       filenames 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
       profile  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
       writers, 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 OpenOffice.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}/share/gramps
       ${HOME}/.gramps

AUTHORS

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

       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 GNOME Help browser
       in the form of Gramps Manual. The  manual  is  also  available  in  XML
       format   as  gramps-manual.xml  under  doc/gramps-manual/$LANG  in  the
       official source distribution.

       The    developer    documentation    can    be     found     on     the
       http://developers.gramps-project.org site.