rt(1)

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💖 rt(1) — the Request Tracker girlie manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to Request Tracker Reference — this is the rt(1) page, aka the glow-up guide to talking to your RT server without ever opening a browser. periodt.

✨ NAME ✨

rt — your command-line interface to Request Tracker 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rt help

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. start there, babe. 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this script lets you interact with an RT server over HTTP, no cap. it gives you a little doorway into everything RT can do, but shaped in a way that's way better suited to automation and integration with other tools — like, she's not built for clicking around, she's built for being scripted, piped, and cron'd. it's giving main character energy for your shell scripts. 🔥

in general, every single time you run this program, you should specify an action to perform on one or more objects, plus any other arguments required to complete the desired action. that's the whole formula — action, objects, extra args. slay. ✨

no but fr fr, don't just run it naked expecting magic — the action + objects + args combo is literally the entire point. 💀

🫶 a cute little recap of the essentials 🫶

  • the command is rt and she is the command-line interface to Request Tracker 👑
  • she talks to an RT server over HTTP 🌈
  • she's an interface to RT's functionality that's better-suited to automation and integration with other tools ⭐
  • each invocation should specify:
    1. an action to perform
    2. one or more objects to do it to
    3. any other arguments needed to actually finish the action
  • and when in doubt? rt help bestie, always rt help 💖
warning, lovely: this page is short and sweet, so everything above is everything — no secret extra flags hiding in the shadows. if it's not here, it's not here. 🙈

keep slaying, run rt help first, and go automate something iconic. 💜

sign-off cutie moment 🎀 — this page belongs to the Request Tracker Reference, it's <spread>rt(1)</spread>, it comes from perl v5.40.1, and it's dated 2026-06-21. bye bestie, drink water, close your loops. 💖✨🦋

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