Command-line mode on macOS

Last modified: April 10, 2024

This topic describes the CLI-powered access to the functionality of dbForge Data Generator installed into a CrossOver bottle. For more information on the command-line functionality of dbForge Data Generator, refer to the corresponding topics of the documentation.

As an example, let’s see how to generate data with a project file.

Note

It’s required to save the project file before running the command below.

To do that, run the following command:

/Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/bin/wine --bottle 'dbForge_Data_Generator' --check --wait-children --start "C:\Program Files\Devart\dbForge Data Generator for SQL Server\datagenerator.com" /generatedata /projectfile:"C:\users\crossover\My Documents\project-file.dgen" /connection:"Data Source=[host];Integrated Security=False;User ID=[yourusername]"

Where:

• /Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/bin/wine is the command that initiates CrossOver.
• –bottle ‘dbForge_Data_Generator’ is the parameter that specifies the name of the bottle that contains dbForge Data Generator.
• –check –wait-children –start are options that configure the launch of the application.
• “C:\Program Files\Devart\dbForge Data Generator for SQL Server\datagenerator.com” /generatedata /projectfile:”C:\users\crossover\My Documents\project-file.dgen” /connection:”Data Source=[host];Integrated Security=False;User ID=[yourusername]” is the command to generate data.

Worked example

Let us look at a worked example command to generate data with the ready project file.

/Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/bin/wine --bottle 'dbForge_Data_Generator' --check --wait-children --start "C:\Program Files\Devart\dbForge Data Generator for SQL Server\datagenerator.com" /generatedata /projectfile:"C:\users\crossover\My Documents\new-data.dgen" /connection:"Data Source=demo-mssql\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=False;User ID=yourusername"

And you’ll see that the process has started.