Gendarme(Gendarme @GENDARME_VERSION@)

NAME
Gendarme - Rule-based code analysis for Mono.

SYNOPSIS

gendarme [--config configfile] [--set ruleset] [--log file | --xml file | --html file] [options] assemblies ...

DESCRIPTION
Gendarme is a extensible rule-based tool used to find problems in .NET applications and libraries. Gendarme inspects programs and libraries that contain code in ECMA CIL format (Mono and .NET) and looks for common problems with the code, problems that compilers do not typically check or have historically not checked.

OPTIONS

--config configfile
    Specify the rule sets and rule settings. Default is 'rules.xml'.

--set ruleset
    Specify a rule set from configfile. Defaults to 'default'.

--log file
    Save the report, as a text file, to the specified file.

--xml file
    Save the report, formatted as XML, to the specified file.

--html file
    Save the report, formatted as HTML, to the specified file.

--console
    Write the defects on stdout. This is the default (implicit) behavior if none of --log, --xml, or --html options are specified. If (explicitely) specified then the defects will be shown on both stdout and inside text/xml/html report(s).

--ignore ignore-file
    Do not report defects listed in the specified file.

--limit N
    Stop reporting after N defects are found.

--severity [all | audit[+] | low[+|-] | medium[+|-] | high[+|-] | critical[-]],...
    Filter the reported defects to include the specified severity levels. Default is 'medium+' (i.e. low and audit levels are ignored).

--confidence [all | low[+] | normal[+|-] | high[+|-] | total[-]],...
    Filter the reported defects to include the specified confidence levels. Default is 'normal+' (i.e. low level is ignored).

--quiet
    Used to disable progress and other information which is normally written to stdout.

--v|verbose
    When present additional progress information is written to stdout. May be used more than once to write even more info.

--version
    Display Gendarme's version number. This will match the Mono version number that this copy of Gendarme was released with.

assemblies ...
    Specify the assemblies to verify. You can specify multiple filenames, including masks (? and *). You can also provide a file that lists several assemblies (one per line) by prefixing the filename with @ on the command line.

FILES

ignore-file
    This file is used to filter out defects from gendarme reports.

rules.xml
    This file is used in conjunction with the --set option to control and configure the rules used by Gendarme. It contains a set of named rules (rule sets) and each rule set contains a list of rules.

gendarme.exe.config
    Used by debug versions of Gendarme to enable logging for rules. It is useful for Gendarme's developers (i.e. not meant for end-users).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

GENDARME_COLOR
    The runner will use colors when displaying defects on the console. By default colors are dark in order to display correctly on any background. You can change this default to "light" (lighter colors looks nice on a dark background, or "none" so no colors will be used. E.g.
        GENDARME_COLOR=none gendarme ...

EXIT STATUS

0   The runner returns 0 when no error has occurred. If some code was analyzed then this also means that no defects were found and reported.

1   The runner execution was successful but either some defects where found or no assembly was specified.

2   The runner execution was interrupted by I/O errors (e.g. missing files).

3   The runner founds errors in the (default or user supplied) configuration files. Specific error messages should be printed on the console.

4   The runner execution was interrupted by a non-handled exception. This is likely a bug inside Gendarme and should be reported on Novell's bugzilla (http://bugzilla.novell.com) or on the mailing-list.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Novell, Inc (http://www.novell.com)

MAILING LISTS
Mailing lists are listed at the http://groups.google.com/group/gendarme

WEB SITE
http://www.mono-project.com/Gendarme

SEE ALSO
gendarme(5),gd2i(1),mono(1)