GENDESC(1)

🎀 GENDESC(1) 🎀

ok so this is gendesc from the LCOV crew — manual section 1, manual group LCOV 2.5, and honestly bestie it's giving "tiny tool, big job" energy. it's an internal application that generates a test case description file, and it's here to make your life easier. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

gendesc — generate a test case description file (internal application). that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gendesc [ -h | --help ] [ -v | --version ]
       [ -o | --output-filename filename ] inputfile

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's what's happening: gendesc takes your plain text test case descriptions and converts them into a format that genhtml actually understands. like a translation service but for test descriptions. no cap. ✨

your inputfile has to follow these rules, and yes you do have to follow them:

• for each test case, one line containing the test case name, starting at the very beginning of the line (no sneaky leading spaces, bestie 🙈)
• then one or more lines containing the test case description, indented with at least one whitespace character (tab or space)

example input file, so you can see exactly what we mean:

   test01
       An example test case description.
       Description continued

   test42
       Supposedly the answer to most of your questions

📌 note: valid test names can consist of letters, decimal digits and the underscore character (_). that's the whole guest list — nothing else gets in. 🚫

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — print a short help text, then exit. the "wait what does this do again" button 🫶
• -v, --version — print version number, then exit. classic.
• -o filename, --output-filename filename — write description data to filename. by default, output is written to STDOUT. so if you don't say where, it just goes straight to your terminal like a main character. 👑

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Peter Oberparleiter <<Peter.Oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>> — shoutout to the icon who made this happen 💜

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• lcov(1) <file://../man/lcov.1.html>
• genhtml(1) <file://../man/genhtml.1.html>
• geninfo(1) <file://../man/geninfo.1.html>
• genpng(1) <file://../man/genpng.1.html>
• gcov(1) <file://../man/gcov.1.html>
• <https://github.com/linux-test-project/lcov> — the mothership 🚀

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🍓 Copyright 🍓

2024-2026, LCOV Project. all rights reserved and all that ✨

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ok that's the whole page bestie, go forth and describe your test cases 💖 — this was gendesc 2.6, dated 2026-10-03, brought to you by the fine humans at the LCOV Project. mwah! 💋🎀