c8y(1)

📦 version 2.56.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 c8y(1) — the c8y cli profile glow-up 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the c8y(1) manual page. yes, that one. we're getting into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

c8y-cli-profile — print the shell profile script, no cap 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

c8y cli profile [flags]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically this command prints out the shell profile script, and that script is literally carrying the helpers — things like set-session and friends 💅

the whole point? you use it to load the associated shell helpers into your shell. that's it, that's the vibe. slay.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h, --help[=false] — help for profile. standard icon behaviour, we love to see it 🫶
  • --shell="" — the type of shell. tell it which one you're living in 🐚

🧚 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🧚

lowkey the biggest section but we're not skipping a single one, periodt 💀

  • --abortOnErrors=10 — abort the batch when it hits the specified number of errors
  • --allowEmptyPipe[=false] — don't fail when the piped input (stdin) is empty
  • --cache[=false] — enable cached responses
  • --cacheBodyPaths=[] — cache should limit hashing of selected paths in the json body. empty means 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 the 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 🍓

bestie these are literally the copy-paste moments you came for, take notes 📝

zsh/bash/sh

eval "$(c8y cli profile)"

zsh

source <(c8y cli profile --shell zsh)

bash

eval "$(c8y cli profile --shell bash)"

sh (posix)

eval "$(c8y cli profile --shell sh)"

fish

c8y cli profile --shell fish | source

PowerShell

c8y cli profile --shell powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this little number is from the c8y-cli fam, dated Jan 1980 (yes, iconic vintage ✨), filed under c8y(1) — go forth and eval responsibly, mwah 🫶🎀

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