X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=guestfish.pod;h=d83a61ca5549042aa9372ebad11b7fa5f680b661;hp=8c9f8331e065270b698dcc21bddaf829ad5ddc8f;hb=394c8bec21d47b74567a4148fdbf87318c301441;hpb=c1ac7607bfe845db3c8bb3e0a766d5f16d56b2ed diff --git a/guestfish.pod b/guestfish.pod index 8c9f833..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 @@ -287,6 +321,15 @@ 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 @@ -333,7 +376,7 @@ I<1> if there was an error. =head1 SEE ALSO L, -L. +L. =head1 AUTHORS @@ -342,7 +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