The commandline client is a commandline tool for using the reference clients.

It currently supports the operations GetFile, GetFileIDs, GetChecksums, PutFile, and DeleteFile.

Installation

Download the chosen version of the bitrepository-command-line-XXX-distributed.tar.gz from here (XXX refers to the version):

https://sbforge.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/org/bitrepository/reference/bitrepository-command-line/

Unpack the file in any wanted location, eg. 

tar -xvf bitrepository-command-line-XXX-distributed.tar.gz

It requires a 'conf' sub-directory to the installation which contain all the settings, etc. for the setup of the collection. This can be done in either of the two ways:

• Create the 'conf' directory and copy all the settings file into it.
• Make a symbolic link to the 'conf' directory for the webclient or the services in the collection (e.g. 'ln -s /my/bitrepository/services/conf).

Certificate

If secure communication is used for this bit repository, a certificate configured in the repository settings, needs to be added. 

1. Update the ~/init.sh file to point to the relevant certificate.

Execute

Scripts have been made for easily running the commandline commands.

The following parameters for the commandline client is set by these scripts:

• -s The path to the directory with the settings files for the client

• -k The path to the file containing the private key

If the commandline client is wanted to be used without the scripts, then these arguments are mandatory.

Execute the different commands in the following way:

GetFile

Perform the GetFile by running the 'GetFile.sh' script. It takes the following arguments:

• [MANDATORY] -f The id for the file to retrieve.

• [OPTIONAL] -p The id of the pillar where the file should be retrieved from. If no argument, then the file will be retrieved from the fastest pillars.

• [OPTIONAL] -l The location where the file should be placed (either total path or directory). If no argument, then in the directory where the script is located.

GetFileIDs

Perform the GetFileIDs by running the 'GetFileIDs.sh' script. It takes the following arguments:

• [OPTIONAL] -f The id of the file to retrieve. If no such argument, then the id of all files are retrieved.

• [OPTIONAL] -p The id of the pillar where the id should be retrieved.

GetChecksum

Perform the GetChecksum by running the 'GetChecksum.sh' script. It takes the following arguments:

• [OPTIONAL] -f The id of the file to retrieve. If no such argument, then the checksums of all files are retrieved.

• [OPTIONAL] -p The id of the pillar where the F

• [OPTIONAL] -S The salt of checksum to request in the response. Requires the ChecksumType argument.

• [OPTIONAL] -R The algorithm of checksum to request in the response from the pillars.

PutFile

Perform the PutFile by running the 'PutFile.sh' script. It takes the following arguments:

• [MANDATORY] -f The path to the file, which is wanted to be put

• [OPTIONAL] -S The salt of checksum to request in the response. Requires the ChecksumType argument.

• [OPTIONAL] -R The algorithm of checksum to request in the response from the pillars.

• [OPTIONAL] -i A id for the file (default is the name of the file).

DeleteFile

Perform the DeleteFile by running the 'DeleteFile.sh' script. It takes the following arguments:

• [MANDATORY] -f The path to the file, which is wanted to be deleted (the actual file is required for calculating the checksums etc. for performing the delete operation)

• [OPTIONAL] -c The checksum of the file to be delete (in the collection default checksum specficiation).

• [OPTIONAL] -S The salt of checksum to request in the response. Requires the ChecksumType argument.

• [OPTIONAL] -R The algorithm of checksum to request in the response from the pillars.

• [OPTIONAL] -p The id of the pillar where the file should be delete. If no argument, then the file will be deleted at all pillars.