=head2 As an interactive shell
$ guestfish
-
+
Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for
editing virtual machine filesystems.
-
+
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit the shell
-
+
><fs> help
=head2 As a script interpreter
This exits guestfish. You can also use C<^D> key.
+=head2 time
+
+ time command args...
+
+Run the command as usual, but print the elapsed time afterwards. This
+can be useful for benchmarking operations.
+
=head1 COMMANDS
@ACTIONS@
=over 4
+=item EDITOR
+
+The C<edit> command uses C<$EDITOR> as the editor. If not
+set, it uses C<vi>.
+
+=item HOME
+
+If compiled with GNU readline support, then the command history
+is saved in C<$HOME/.guestfish>
+
+=item LIBGUESTFS_APPEND
+
+Pass additional options to the guest kernel.
+
=item LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG
Set C<LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1> to enable verbose messages. This has the
same effect as using the B<-v> option.
+=item LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE
+
+Set the memory allocated to the qemu process, in megabytes. For
+example:
+
+ LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE=700
+
=item LIBGUESTFS_PATH
Set the path that guestfish uses to search for kernel and initrd.img.
the qemu which was found at compile time by the configure script is
used.
-=item LIBGUESTFS_APPEND
-
-Pass additional options to the guest kernel.
+=item PAGER
-=item HOME
-
-If compiled with GNU readline support, then the command history
-is saved in C<$HOME/.guestfish>
-
-=item EDITOR
-
-The C<edit> command uses C<$EDITOR> as the editor. If not
-set, it uses C<vi>.
+The C<more> command uses C<$PAGER> as the pager. If not
+set, it uses C<more>.
=back