X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=fish%2Fguestfish.pod;h=65fccc8dad93a6fb277aca69fe72c9ecf453dcd0;hb=3f2ba2c537b77ed435f85b719e2a00dad2677d1e;hp=13645456291a4be470ee08d9c165b9a31df5e759;hpb=58abe782bf7137526b4a5c7e6d5d2b145e3b09d2;p=libguestfs.git diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod index 1364545..65fccc8 100644 --- a/fish/guestfish.pod +++ b/fish/guestfish.pod @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ the functionality of the guestfs API, see L. Guestfish gives you structured access to the libguestfs API, from shell scripts or the command line or interactively. If you want to -rescue a broken virtual machine image, you might want to look at the +rescue a broken virtual machine image, you should look at the L command. Using guestfish in read/write mode on live virtual machines can be @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ See also: L. =item B<--listen> Fork into the background and listen for remote commands. See section -I below. +L below. =item B<-m dev[:mountpoint]> | B<--mount dev[:mountpoint]> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ If the mountpoint is omitted, it defaults to C. You have to mount something on C before most commands will work. -If any C<-m> or C<--mount> options are given, the guest is +If any I<-m> or I<--mount> options are given, the guest is automatically launched. If you don't know what filesystems a disk image contains, you @@ -194,11 +194,11 @@ of autosync in the L manpage. =item B<--remote[=pid]> Send remote commands to C<$GUESTFISH_PID> or C. See section -I below. +L below. =item B<-r> | B<--ro> -This changes the C<-a> and C<-m> options so that disks are added and +This changes the I<-a> and I<-m> options so that disks are added and mounts are done read-only (see L). The option must always be used if the disk image or virtual machine @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ any other commands C is a synonym for C. You must C (or C) your guest before mounting or performing any other commands. -The only exception is that if the C<-m> or C<--mount> option was +The only exception is that if the I<-m> or I<--mount> option was given, the guest is automatically run for you (simply because guestfish can't mount the disks you asked for without doing this). @@ -367,6 +367,9 @@ will create a directory C on the host, and then export the contents of C on the mounted filesystem to C. (See C). +To change the local directory, use the C command. C will +have no effect, due to the way that subprocesses work in Unix. + =head1 PIPES Use CspaceE | command> to pipe the output of the @@ -382,6 +385,7 @@ Other examples: hexdump /bin/ls | head list-devices | tail -1 + tgz-out / - | tar ztf - The space before the pipe symbol is required, any space after the pipe symbol is optional. Everything after the pipe symbol is just passed @@ -424,6 +428,25 @@ This syntax implicitly calls C (q.v.) so it also handles case insensitivity like Windows would. This only works in argument positions that expect a path. +=head1 UPLOADING AND DOWNLOADING FILES + +For commands such as C, C, C, C and +others which upload from or download to a local file, you can use the +special filename C<-> to mean "from stdin" or "to stdout". For example: + + upload - /foo + +reads stdin and creates from that a file C in the disk image, +and: + + tar-out /etc - | tar tf - + +writes the tarball to stdout and then pipes that into the external +"tar" command (see L). + +When using C<-> to read from stdin, the input is read up to the end of +stdin. + =head1 EXIT ON ERROR BEHAVIOUR By default, guestfish will ignore any errors when in interactive mode @@ -455,13 +478,13 @@ To cause the server to exit, send it the exit command: guestfish --remote exit Note that the server will normally exit if there is an error in a -command. You can change this in the usual way. See section I. +command. You can change this in the usual way. See section +L. =head2 CONTROLLING MULTIPLE GUESTFISH PROCESSES The C statement sets the environment variable C<$GUESTFISH_PID>, -which is how the C<--remote> option knows where to send the commands. +which is how the I<--remote> option knows where to send the commands. You can have several guestfish listener processes running using: eval `guestfish --listen` @@ -672,8 +695,8 @@ set, it uses C. =item GUESTFISH_PID Used with the I<--remote> option to specify the remote guestfish -process to control. See section I. +process to control. See section +L. =item HOME @@ -730,19 +753,24 @@ enough. =head1 EXIT CODE -guestfish returns I<0> if the commands completed without error, or -I<1> if there was an error. +guestfish returns 0 if the commands completed without error, or +1 if there was an error. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L, L, +L, L, L, +L, L, +L, L, -L. +L, +L, +L. =head1 AUTHORS @@ -750,7 +778,7 @@ Richard W.M. Jones (C) =head1 COPYRIGHT -Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc. +Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Red Hat Inc. L This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify