X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=fish%2Fguestfish.pod;h=c647b57414b65322419f4bb7ba51a2b462c7a950;hp=e5f0bbaa4e2acddda2e745a19be89145aea78a56;hb=4b0a04f90e88d2d1a10bab4504674734f61c3184;hpb=e8b02113ccdaf62960bb9138d8ebd801bad9d036 diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod index e5f0bba..c647b57 100644 --- a/fish/guestfish.pod +++ b/fish/guestfish.pod @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ guestfish - the libguestfs Filesystem Interactive SHell guestfish -i disk.img [disk.img ...] +=head1 WARNING + +Using guestfish in read/write mode on live virtual machines can be +dangerous, potentially causing disk corruption. Use the I<--ro> +(read-only) option to use guestfish safely if the disk image or +virtual machine might be live. + =head1 EXAMPLES =head2 As an interactive shell @@ -101,11 +108,6 @@ shell scripts or the command line or interactively. If you want to 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 -dangerous, potentially causing disk corruption. Use the I<--ro> -(read-only) option to use guestfish safely if the disk image or -virtual machine might be live. - =head1 OPTIONS =over 4 @@ -168,7 +170,7 @@ 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 +180,7 @@ 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 +196,11 @@ of autosync in the L manpage. =item B<--remote[=pid]> Send remote commands to C<$GUESTFISH_PID> or C. See section -I below. +L below. =item B<-r> | B<--ro> -This changes the C<-a> and C<-m> options so that disks are added and +This changes the I<-a> and I<-m> options so that disks are added and mounts are done read-only (see L). The option must always be used if the disk image or virtual machine @@ -272,7 +274,7 @@ any other commands C is a synonym for C. You must C (or C) your guest before mounting or performing any other commands. -The only exception is that if the C<-m> or C<--mount> option was +The only exception is that if the I<-m> or I<--mount> option was given, the guest is automatically run for you (simply because guestfish can't mount the disks you asked for without doing this). @@ -428,6 +430,25 @@ This syntax implicitly calls C (q.v.) so it also handles case insensitivity like Windows would. This only works in argument positions that expect a path. +=head1 UPLOADING AND DOWNLOADING FILES + +For commands such as C, C, C, C and +others which upload from or download to a local file, you can use the +special filename C<-> to mean "from stdin" or "to stdout". For example: + + upload - /foo + +reads stdin and creates from that a file C in the disk image, +and: + + tar-out /etc - | tar tf - + +writes the tarball to stdout and then pipes that into the external +"tar" command (see L). + +When using C<-> to read from stdin, the input is read up to the end of +stdin. + =head1 EXIT ON ERROR BEHAVIOUR By default, guestfish will ignore any errors when in interactive mode @@ -459,13 +480,13 @@ To cause the server to exit, send it the exit command: guestfish --remote exit Note that the server will normally exit if there is an error in a -command. You can change this in the usual way. See section I. +command. You can change this in the usual way. See section +L. =head2 CONTROLLING MULTIPLE GUESTFISH PROCESSES The C statement sets the environment variable C<$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` @@ -676,8 +697,8 @@ 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 @@ -734,8 +755,8 @@ 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 @@ -749,6 +770,7 @@ L, L, L, L, +L, L, L. @@ -758,7 +780,7 @@ 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