X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=guestfish.pod;h=d44e3e3fb70f327037942d6a9bc19d7d28ea1bf6;hp=0e9967fea372848955082214895714fef8e1e49d;hb=d901cc916102f1aaccfb73396b48aa303e5b8cd7;hpb=df189925e4a0e6f80b0aebbd78201db09a63daf3 diff --git a/guestfish.pod b/guestfish.pod index 0e9967f..d44e3e3 100644 --- a/guestfish.pod +++ b/guestfish.pod @@ -189,6 +189,30 @@ but B 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 or whatever L uses). +For example: + + !mkdir local + tgz-out /remote local/remote-data.tar.gz + +will create a directory C on the host, and then export +the contents of C on the mounted filesystem to +C. (See C). + +=head1 EXIT ON ERROR BEHAVIOUR + +By default, guestfish will ignore any errors when in interactive mode +(ie. taking commands from a human over a tty), and will exit on the +first error in non-interactive mode (scripts, commands given on the +command line). + +If you prefix a command with a I<-> character, then that command will +not cause guestfish to exit, even if that (one) command returns an +error. + =head1 COMMANDS =head2 help @@ -234,6 +258,26 @@ 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<$EDITOR>. However if you use the alternate +commands C or C you will get those corresponding +editors. + +NOTE: This will not work reliably for large files +(> 2 MB) or binary files containing \0 bytes. + @ACTIONS@ =head1 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES @@ -256,13 +300,27 @@ Set the default qemu binary that libguestfs uses. If not set, then the qemu which was found at compile time by the configure script is used. +=item LIBGUESTFS_APPEND + +Pass additional options to the guest kernel. + =item HOME If compiled with GNU readline support, then the command history is saved in C<$HOME/.guestfish> +=item EDITOR + +The C command uses C<$EDITOR> as the editor. If not +set, it uses C. + =back +=head1 EXIT CODE + +guestfish returns I<0> if the commands completed without error, or +I<1> if there was an error. + =head1 SEE ALSO L,