azure-cli-interactive

The interactive shell for Microsoft Azure CLI (Command Line Interface)

Interactive Tutorials
Lightweight Drop Down Completions
Auto Cached Suggestions
Dynamic parameter completion
Defaulting scopes of commands
On the fly descriptions of the commands AND parameters
On the fly examples of how to utilize each command
Optional “az” component
Query the previous command
Navigation of example pane
Optional layout configurations
Fun Colors

Running

To start the application

$ az shell

Then type your commands and hit [Enter]

To use commands outside the application

$ #[command]

To Search through the last command as json jmespath format for querying

$ ? [param]

Note: Only if the previous command dumps out json, e.g. vm list

To only see the commands for a command

$ %% [top-level command] [sub-level command] etc

To undefault a value

$ %% ..

Use Examples

Type a command, for example:

$ vm create

Look at the examples

Scroll through the pane with Control Y for up and Control N for down #

Pick the example you want with:

$ vm create :: [Example Number]

Dev Setup

Fork and clone repository

$ . dev_setup.py

To get the Exit Code of the previous command:

$ $

Clear History

Only clears the appended suggestion when you restart the shell

$ clear-history

Release History

0.3.8 (2017-08-28)

minor fixes

0.3.7 (2017-07-27)

Improves the start up time by using cached commands

0.3.7 (2017-07-27)

Increase test coverage

0.3.5 (2017-06-21)

Enhance the ‘?’ gesture to also inject into the next command

0.3.4 (2017-06-13)

Fixes Interactive errors with the profile 2017-03-09-profile-preview (#3587)
Allows ‘–version’ as a parameter for interactive mode (#3645)
Stop Interactive Mode from Throwing errors from Validation completions (#3570)
Progress Reporting for template deployments (#3510)

0.3.3 (2017-05-30)

–progress flag
Removed –debug and –verbose from completions

0.3.2 (2017-05-18)

Bug fixes.
Remove ‘interactive’ from completions (#3324)

0.3.1 (2017-05-09)

Add link to blog in ‘az interactive —help’ (#3252)

0.3.0 (2017-05-05)

Integrate interactive into az
Colors Options
Rename ‘shell’ => ‘interactive’

0.2.1

CLI Performance changes integrated

0.2.0

Public Preview release

0.1.1

Preview release

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