c8y(1)

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✨ NAME ✨

c8y-binaries-create — Create binary

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

c8y binaries create [flags]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Create/upload a new binary to Cumulocity

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -d, --data=[] — static data to be applied to body. accepts json or shorthand json, i.e. --data 'value1=1,my.nested.value=100'
• --file="" — File to be uploaded as a binary (required)
• -h, --help[=false] — help for create
• --name="" — Set the name of the binary file. This will be the name of the file when it is downloaded in the UI
• --processingMode="" — Cumulocity processing mode
• --template="" — Body template
• --templateVars=[] — Body template variables
• --type="" — Custom type. If left blank, the MIME type will be detected from the file extension

🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

• --abortOnErrors=10 — Abort batch when reaching specified number of errors
• --allowEmptyPipe[=false] — Don't fail when piped input is empty (stdin)
• --cache[=false] — Enable cached responses
• --cacheBodyPaths=[] — Cache should limit hashing of selected paths in the json body. Empty indicates all values
• --cacheTTL="60s" — Cache time-to-live (TTL) as a duration, i.e. 60s, 2m
• -c, --compact[=false] — Compact instead of pretty-printed output when using json output. Pretty print is the default if output is the terminal
• --confirm[=false] — Prompt for confirmation
• --confirmText="" — Custom confirmation text
• --currentPage=0 — Current page which should be returned
• --customQueryParam=[] — add custom URL query parameters. i.e. --customQueryParam 'withCustomOption=true,myOtherOption=myvalue'
• --debug[=false] — Set very verbose log messages
• --delay="0ms" — delay after each request, i.e. 5ms, 1.2s
• --delayBefore="0ms" — delay before each request, i.e. 5ms, 1.2s
• --dry[=false] — Dry run. Don't send any data to the server
• --dryFormat="markdown" — Dry run output format. i.e. json, dump, markdown or curl
• --examples[=false] — Show examples for the current command
• --filter=[] — Apply a client side filter to response before returning it to the user
• --flatten[=false] — flatten json output by replacing nested json properties with properties where their names are represented by dot notation
• -f, --force[=false] — Do not prompt for confirmation. Ignored when using --confirm
• -H, --header=[] — custom headers. i.e. --header "Accept: value, AnotherHeader: myvalue"
• --includeAll[=false] — Include all results by iterating through each page
• -k, --insecure[=false] — Allow insecure server connections when using SSL
• -l, --logMessage="" — Add custom message to the activity log
• --maxJobs=0 — Maximum number of jobs. 0 = unlimited (use with caution!)
• --noAccept[=false] — Ignore Accept header will remove the Accept header from requests, however PUT and POST requests will only see the effect
• --noCache[=false] — Force disabling of cached responses (overwrites cache setting)
• -M, --noColor[=false] — Don't use colors when displaying log entries on the console
• --noLog[=false] — Disables the activity log for the current command
• --noProgress[=false] — Disable progress bars
• --noProxy[=false] — Ignore the proxy settings
• -n, --nullInput[=false] — Don't read the input (stdin). Useful if using in shell for/while loops
• -o, --output="table" — Output format i.e. table, json, csv, csvheader
• --outputFile="" — Save JSON output to file (after select/view)
• --outputFileRaw="" — Save raw response to file (before select/view)
• --outputTemplate="" — jsonnet template to apply to the output
• -p, --pageSize=5 — Maximum results per page
• --progress[=false] — Show progress bar. This will also disable any other verbose output
• --proxy="" — Proxy setting, i.e. http://10.0.0.1:8080
• -r, --raw[=false] — Show raw response. This mode will force output=json and view=off
• --retries=3 — Max number of attempts when a failed http call is encountered
• --select=[] — Comma separated list of properties to return. wildcards and globstar accepted, i.e. --select 'id,name,type,**.serialNumber'
• --session="" — Session configuration
• --sessionMode="" — Override default session mode for a single command which would normally be disabled
• -P, --sessionPassword="" — Override session password
• -U, --sessionUsername="" — Override session username. i.e. peter or t1234/peter (with tenant)
• --silentExit[=false] — Silent status codes do not affect the exit code
• --silentStatusCodes="" — Status codes which will not print out an error message
• --timeout="600s" — Request timeout duration, i.e. 60s, 2m
• --totalPages=0 — Total number of pages to get
• -v, --verbose[=false] — Verbose logging
• --view="auto" — Use views when displaying data on the terminal. Disable using --view off
• --withError[=false] — Errors will be printed on stdout instead of stderr
• --withTotalElements[=false] — Request Cumulocity to include the total elements in the response statistics under .statistics.totalElements (introduced in 10.13)
• -t, --withTotalPages[=false] — Request Cumulocity to include the total pages in the response statistics under .statistics.totalPages
• --workers=1 — Number of workers

💀 EXAMPLE 💀

$ c8y binaries create --file ./myfile.log

Upload a log file

$ c8y binaries create --file "myConfig.json" --type c8y_upload --data "c8y_Global={}"

Upload a config file and make it globally accessible for all users

$ c8y binaries create --file "myConfig.json" --file "device01-myConfig.json" --type c8y_upload --template "{collectedAt: _.Now('-5min')}"

Upload a file with a custom name and custom meta information

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

c8y-binaries(1)

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