cloudmesh-cmd5 4.2.4

A dynamic extensible CMD based command shell

Cloudmesh cmd5

Installation and Documentation

Please note that several packages are available which are pointed to in the installation documentation.

	Links
Documentation	https://cloudmesh.github.io/cloudmesh-cloud
Code	https://github.com/cloudmesh/cloudmesh-cloud
Installation Instructions	https://github.com/cloudmesh/get

An dynamically extensible CMD based command shell. For en extensive documentation please see

• https://github.com/cloudmesh-community/book/blob/master/vonLaszewski-cloud.epub?raw=true

where we also document how to use pyenv virtualenv.

Requirements

• Python greater equal 3.7.3
• Python greater equal 2.7.15

Cloudmesh was able to run on earlier versions of python, but we do prefer to test it on the newest version.

We recommend that you use pyenv or venv first before you install cloudmesh. This will make sure the version of cmd5 is installed in the user space.

Setup a virtualenv either with virtualenv or pyenv. We have a tutorial on cloudmesh classes for the use of pyenv. Pyenv is easy to uninstall via the installer documented at

• https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-installer

$ curl https://pyenv.run | bash

Add the following lines to your .bashrc or .bash_profile

export PATH="~/.pyenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"
eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"

For more information see our handbook

CMD5 Shell and Commandline

to run the shell you can activate it with the cms command. cms stands for cloudmesh shell::

$ cms

It will print the banner and enter the shell::

+-------------------------------------------------------+
|   ____ _                 _                     _      |
|  / ___| | ___  _   _  __| |_ __ ___   ___  ___| |__   |
| | |   | |/ _ \| | | |/ _` | '_ ` _ \ / _ \/ __| '_ \  |
| | |___| | (_) | |_| | (_| | | | | | |  __/\__ \ | | | |
|  \____|_|\___/ \__,_|\__,_|_| |_| |_|\___||___/_| |_| |
+-------------------------------------------------------+
|                  Cloudmesh CMD5 Shell                 |
+-------------------------------------------------------+

cms>

To see the list of commands you can say::

cms> help

To see the manual page for a specific command, please use::

help COMMANDNAME

CMD 5 Plugin Mechanism

Cmd5 comes with a sophisticated plugin mechanism. Commands can be readily designed from the sys command.

The sys command can be installed either from source (as discussed previously) or via pip

$ pip install cloudmesh-sys

Once you have installed it, execute cms help sys to see the usage. Now you simply can in a new directory execute the sys command as follows, where mycommnad is than name of the command you like to implement.

$ mkdir mycommand
$ cd mycommand
$ cms sys command generate mycommand

A directory with the name cloudmesh-mycommand will be generated that contains the template for the command. You can enter this template and modify the implementation in the folders cloudmesh/mycommand/api and cloudmesh/mycommand/command when installing it with

$ pip install .

The command will be added to the cms command>

An example for the bar command is presented at:

• cloudmesh/bar/command/bar.py

It shows how simple the command definition is (bar.py)::

from __future__ import print_function
from cloudmesh.shell.command import command
from cloudmesh.shell.command import PluginCommand

class BarCommand(PluginCommand):

    @command
    def do_bar(self, args, arguments):
        """
        ::

          Usage:
                command -f FILE
                command FILE
                command list
          This command does some useful things.
          Arguments:
              FILE   a file name
          Options:
              -f      specify the file
        """
        print(arguments)

An important difference to other CMD solutions is that our commands can leverage (besides the standard definition), docopts as a way to define the manual page. This allows us to use arguments as dict and use simple if conditions to interpret the command. Using docopts has the advantage that contributors are forced to think about the command and its options and document them from the start. Previously we used not to use docopts and argparse was used. However we noticed that for some contributions the lead to commands that were either not properly documented or the developers delivered ambiguous commands that resulted in confusion and wrong usage by the users. Hence, we do recommend that you use docopts.

The transformation is enabled by the @command decorator that takes also the manual page and creates a proper help message for the shell automatically. Thus there is no need to introduce a separate help method as would normally be needed in CMD.

Features

The following highlighted features are available:

• easy command integration through separate modules
• multi cloud environments (under development) though cloudmesh-cloud plugin
• openapi integration through cloudmesh-openapi plugin
• general commands as documented at in the manual such as admin, banner, clear, echo, default, info, pause, plugin, quit, shell, sleep, stopwatch, sys, var, version, open, and others

Changes

• added support for terminals with dark background