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authorNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2009-05-26 09:38:36 -0400
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.. _cmd:
+.. highlight:: console
===========================
Coverage Command Line usage
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Combining Data Files
--------------------
-For some applications, your code will run on a number of different machines.
-To make it easier to collect together the .coverage data files from these runs,
-the -p flag will append a machine name and process id to the .coverage data file
-name.
+If you need to collect coverage data from different machines, coverage can
+combine multiple files into one for reporting. Use the -p flag during execution
+to append a machine name and process id to the .coverage data file name.
Once you have created a number of these files, you can copy them all to a single
directory, and use the -c flag to combine them into one .coverage data file::
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Annotation
----------
+text annotation too!