Installation and Administration

Built-in Commands

Updated: July 17, 2023

Namespace: <em>global</em>

Basic commands provided by the shell

 

commands

NAME commands – Print a list of available commands

SYNTAX

commands

ALIASES cmds

exit

NAME exit – Exit the interactive shell

SYNTAX

exit [code]

ALIASES quit

ARGUMENTS

  • code - [optional] -The exit code. Must be a positive number otherwise 0 is assumed. Defaults to 0.

help

NAME help – The help command

SYNTAX

help [options] [command]

OPTIONS

  • -export - If used export all the commands available in a wiki format to the given file. If a directory is given the export will be made in file help.wiki in that directory.
  • -ns - [optional] - to be used to filter commands by namespaces when generating the documentation. By default all namespaces are dumped.

ARGUMENTS

  • command - [optional] -the name of the command to get help for

install

NAME install – Install a SH script to launch the shell in the terminal. Available only for UNIX systems.

SYNTAX

install [file]

ARGUMENTS

  • file - [optional] -the file where to install the shell script. If not used the script will be printed on stdout.

interactive

NAME interactive – Interactive shell

SYNTAX

interactive

settings

NAME settings – Print or modify the shell settings.

SYNTAX

settings [options] [name] [value]

OPTIONS

  • -reset - [flag] - Reset settings to their defaults. Need to restart shell.

ARGUMENTS

  • name - [optional] -The variable to print or set.
  • value - [optional] -The variable value to set.

trace

NAME trace – Print the last error stack trace if any

SYNTAX

trace

use

NAME use – Switch the current command namespace. If no namespace is specified the current namepsace name is printed.

SYNTAX

use [name]

ARGUMENTS

  • name - [optional] -The command namespace to use

version

NAME version – Print Nuxeo Shell Version

SYNTAX

version