---
name: "lp-grab-attachments"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "lptools"
version: "0.3.0-2.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lp-grab-attachments"
---

# lp-grab-attachments(1)

downloads attachments from a Launchpad bug

## NAME

grab-attachments - downloads attachments from a Launchpad bug

## SYNOPSIS

**grab-attachments \[*options*\] *bug-number*...**\
 **grab-attachments -h**

## DESCRIPTION

**grab-attachments** is a script to download all attachments from a Launchpad bug report or bug reports with a source package or project  task into a directory named after the bug e.g. bug-1.

## OPTIONS

Listed below are the command line options for grab-attachments:

- *bug-number*

  Specifies the Launchpad bug number that the script should download attachments from.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Display a help message and exit.

- **-l *INSTANCE*, --lpinstance=*INSTANCE***

  Use the specified instance of Launchpad (e.g. "staging"), instead of the default of "production".

- **--no-conf**

  Do not read any configuration files, or configuration from environment variables.

- **-d**, **--duplicates**

  Download attachments from duplicates too.

- **-p *SRCPACKAGE*, --package=*SRCPACKAGE***

  Download attachments from all bugs with an open task for this source package.

- **-P *PROJECT*, --project=*PROJECT***

  Download attachments from all bugs with an open task for this project.

- **-D**, **--descriptions**

  Also download bug descriptions as Description.txt.

## AUTHOR

**lp-grab-attachments** was written by Daniel Holbach and this manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies.

Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3.