ZOOMSH(1)

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version 5.38.1 · 13 versions
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💖 ZOOMSH(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for zoomsh, which lives in section 1 (Commands) of the Unix manual. sit down, grab a snack, this one's actually fun 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

zoomsh — the ZOOM shell, aka your new favorite little command-line bestie 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

zoomsh [-a apdufile] [-e] [-v loglevel] [commands...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, zoomsh is a ZOOM client with a super simple command line interface. it's giving "demo of the ZOOM API" energy and honestly? it ate. it's genuinely useful for testing targets, no cap.

and here's the cute part: you can pass one or more commands to zoomsh, and those commands get invoked first. like, before anything else. main character commands only 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -a apdufile — logs protocol packages into apdufile, aka the APDU log. it's literally a little diary for your protocol packets 🎀
  • -e — makes zoomsh stop processing commands as soon as an error occurs. bold. decisive. the exit code of zoomsh is 1 if an error occurs, and 0 otherwise. that's it, that's the vibe check.
  • -v loglevel — sets the YAZ log level to loglevel. turned all the way up, as you should 🌈

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

say you start the yaz-ztest in one console — then you can use the ZOOM shell like this, and it's so satisfying honestly:

$ zoomsh
ZOOM>connect localhost:9999
ZOOM>search computer
localhost:9999: 7 hits
ZOOM>show 0 1
1 Default USmarc
001    11224466
003 DLC
005 00000000000000.0
008 910710c19910701nju           00010 eng
010    $a    11224466
040    $a DLC $c DLC
050 00 $a 123-xyz
100 10 $a Jack Collins
245 10 $a How to program a computer
260 1  $a Penguin
263    $a 8710
300    $a p. cm.
ZOOM>quit

and you can ALSO get the exact same result by passing the commands as arguments on a single command line, because who has time for interactive mode:

$ zoomsh "connect localhost:9999" "search computer" "show 0 1" quit
periodt. same result, one line. iconic behavior 💜

🦋 COMMANDS 🦋

  • connect zurl — connects to the target given by zurl. making connections, literally 🤝
  • close [zurl] — closes the connection to the target given by zurl, or closes all targets if zurl was omitted. leaving the group chat either way, respectfully 🙈
  • show [start [count]] — displays count records starting at the offset given by start. the first record has offset 0 — and yes bestie that's unlike the Z39.50 protocol, so don't come at me with Z39.50 brain, it will not help you here 😭
  • quit — quits zoomsh. the Irish goodbye. slay 💅
  • set name [value] — sets option name to value. customize her, make her yours ✨
  • get name — prints the value of option name. it's giving "tell me everything" 🔥
  • help — prints a list of available commands. when in doubt, ask for help, no shame in it 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

yaz(7), yaz-ztest(8),

the section "Building clients with ZOOM" in the YAZ manual. yes, the capital-B Building, go read it 📖

and the ZOOM home page[1], obviously.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Index Data — they did that, and we thank them 💖

🎀 NOTES 🎀

  1. ZOOM home page http://zoom.z3950.org/

okay that's the whole page, bestie! this doc ships from YAZ 5.38.1 and it's dated 10/16/2026 — go forth, connect to a target, and show some records. you've got this. mwah 💋✨🦋

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