X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=guestfish.pod;h=d83a61ca5549042aa9372ebad11b7fa5f680b661;hp=746922f8cc0bf519c8aff687be203cc87149a0d6;hb=394c8bec21d47b74567a4148fdbf87318c301441;hpb=58b9f95e00d4524c1ac7d994365e65b96cde5a8c diff --git a/guestfish.pod b/guestfish.pod index 746922f..d83a61c 100644 --- a/guestfish.pod +++ b/guestfish.pod @@ -107,6 +107,13 @@ This changes the C<-m> option so that mounts are done read-only Enable very verbose messages. This is particularly useful if you find a bug. +=item B<-D> | B<--no-dest-paths> + +Don't tab-complete paths on the guest filesystem. It is useful to be +able to hit the tab key to complete paths on the guest filesystem, but +this causes extra "hidden" guestfs calls to be made, so this option is +here to allow this feature to be disabled. + =back =head1 COMMANDS ON COMMAND LINE @@ -177,6 +184,33 @@ a space-separated list, enclosed in quotes. For example: vgcreate VG "/dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1" +=head1 WILDCARDS AND GLOBBING + +Neither guestfish nor the underlying guestfs API performs +wildcard expansion (globbing) by default. So for example the +following will not do what you expect: + + rm-rf /home/* + +Assuming you don't have a directory literally called C +then the above command will return an error. + +To perform wildcard expansion, use the C command. + + glob rm-rf /home/* + +runs C on each path that matches (ie. potentially running +the command many times), equivalent to: + + rm-rf /home/jim + rm-rf /home/joe + rm-rf /home/mary + +C only works on simple guest paths and not on device names. + +If you have several parameters, each containing a wildcard, then glob +will perform a cartesian product. + =head1 COMMENTS Any line which starts with a I<#> character is treated as a comment @@ -189,6 +223,30 @@ 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 @@ -254,6 +312,24 @@ editors. NOTE: This will not work reliably for large files (> 2 MB) or binary files containing \0 bytes. +=head2 lcd + + lcd directory + +Change the local directory, ie. the current directory of guestfish +itself. + +Note that C won't do what you might expect. + +=head2 glob + + glob command args... + +Expand wildcards in any paths in the args list, and run C +repeatedly on each matching path. + +See section WILDCARDS AND GLOBBING. + @ACTIONS@ =head1 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES @@ -276,6 +352,10 @@ 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 @@ -288,10 +368,15 @@ 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, -L. +L. =head1 AUTHORS @@ -300,7 +385,7 @@ Richard W.M. Jones (C) =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc. -L +L This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by