EVL Anonymization

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evl anon command

(since EVL 1.0)

To help to generate, check and build all the configuration files, there is ‘evl anon’ command line utility.

evl anon project new <project_dir>: creates new project folder <project_dir> with default folder structure and files inside.
evl anon project sample <project_dir>: creates new project folder <project_dir> with sample data and configs.
evl anon source new <source_name>: creates new source <source_name> in current project directory (or in <project_dir>). With ‘--guess-from-csv’ option, it guess data types based on source csv files.
evl anon salt regenerate: generate new salt, or regenerate existing one, for given <project_dir>. Path to the salt is taken from ‘EVL_ANON_SALT_PATH’ variable from ‘project.sh’ file. When no <project_dir> is specified, suppose current directory as project’s one.
evl anon check <config_file>: check if <config_file> contains valid combination of metadata.
evl anon build <config_file>: generates anonymization jobs based on <config_file> and also a Workflow with all these jobs.

Synopsis

evl anon project
  ( new | sample ) <project_dir>
  [-v|--verbose]

evl anon source new
  <source_name>
  [-p|--project <project_dir>]
  [-g|--guess-from-csv <source_dir>]
  [-v|--verbose]

evl anon salt regenerate
  [-p|--project <project_dir>]
  [-v|--verbose]

evl anon check
  <config_file>
  [-p|--project <project_dir>]
  [-v|--verbose]

evl anon build
  <config_file>
  [-p|--project <project_dir>]
  [--parallel [<parallel_threads>]]
  [-v|--verbose]

evl anon
  ( --help | --usage | --version )

Options

-p, --project=<project_dir>: if the current directory is not a project’s one, full or relative path can be specified by <project_dir>
--parallel[=<parallel_threads>]: generate workflow with jobs parallelized as much as possible. To limit this parallelization to, <parallel_threads> can be specified, which is the value how many jobs can run in parallel.
-g, --guess-from-csv=<source_dir>: preserve mode (i.e. permission), timestamps and ownership

Standard options:

--help: print this help and exit
--usage: print short usage information and exit
-v, --verbose: print to stderr info/debug messages of the component
--version: print version and exit

Environment Variables

The list of all EVL Data Anonymization variables with their default values. One can change these values in his ‘~/.evlrc’ file or in the project in ‘project.sh’.