Implement 'strings' and 'hexdump' commands.

[libguestfs.git] / guestfish.pod

diff --git a/guestfish.pod b/guestfish.pod
index 0e9967f..b464c71 100644 (file)
--- a/guestfish.pod
+++ b/guestfish.pod
@@ -189,6 +189,19 @@ but B<not> by a command.  For example:
 
 Blank lines are also ignored.
 
+=head1 RUNNING COMMANDS LOCALLY
+
+Any line which starts with a I<!> character is treated as a command
+sent to the local shell (C</bin/sh> or whatever L<system(3)> uses).
+For example:
+
+ !mkdir local
+ tgz-out /remote local/remote-data.tar.gz
+
+will create a directory C<local> on the host, and then export
+the contents of C</remote> on the mounted filesystem to
+C<local/remote-data.tar.gz>.  (See C<tgz-out>).
+
 =head1 COMMANDS
 
 =head2 help
@@ -234,6 +247,26 @@ number of 512 byte sectors
 
 =back
 
+=head2 echo
+
+ echo [params ...]
+
+This echos the parameters to the terminal.
+
+=head2 edit | vi | emacs
+
+ edit filename
+
+This is used to edit a file.  It downloads the file, edits it
+locally using your editor, then uploads the result.
+
+The editor is C<$EDITOR>.  However if you use the alternate
+commands C<vi> or C<emacs> you will get those corresponding
+editors.
+
+NOTE: This will not work reliably for large files
+(> 2 MB) or binary files containing \0 bytes.
+
 @ACTIONS@
 
 =head1 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
@@ -261,6 +294,11 @@ used.
 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>.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO