CLI.LUA(8)

NAME
cli.lua - FreeBSD Lua CLI module

DESCRIPTION
cli.lua contains the main functionality required to add new CLI commands, which can be executed at the loader prompt.

Before hooking into the functionality provided by cli.lua, it must be included with a statement such as the following:

    local cli = require("cli")

  Adding new commands
New loader commands may be created by adding functions to the object returned by requiring the cli.lua module.

For instance:

    local cli = require("cli")
    cli.foo = function(...)
    	-- Expand args to command name and the rest of argv.  These arguments
    	-- are pushed directly to the stack by loader, then handed off to
    	-- cli_execute.  cli_execute then passes them on to the invoked
    	-- function, where they appear as varargs that must be peeled apart into
    	-- their respective components.
    	local _, argv = cli.arguments(...)
    	print("This is the foo command!")
    	for k, v in ipairs(argv) do
    		print("arg #" .. tostring(k) .. ": '" .. v .. "'")
    	end
    	-- Perform a loader command directly.  This will not get dispatched back
    	-- to Lua, so it is acceptable to have a function of the exact same name
    	-- in loader.  Lua will have the first chance to handle any commands
    	-- executed at the loader prompt.
    	loader.perform("foo")
    end

This function may be invoked by a user at the loader prompt by simply typing foo. Arguments may be passed to it as usual, space-delimited.

  Default Commands
As of present, the cli.lua module by default provides commands for autoboot, boot, boot-conf, and reload-conf.

For autoboot, boot, and boot-conf, the core.lua(8) module will load all ELF modules as-needed before executing the equivalent built-in loader commands. All non-kernel arguments to these commands are passed in the same order to the loader command.

The reload-conf command will reload the configuration from disk. This is useful if you have manually changed currdev and would like to easily reload the configuration from the new device.

  Exported Functions
The following functions are exported from cli.lua:

cli.arguments(...)
    Takes varargs passed on the stack from loader(8) to cli_execute, splits them out into two return values: the command name, traditionally argv[0], and the rest of argv.

SEE ALSO
loader.conf(5), core.lua(8), loader(8)

AUTHORS
The cli.lua file was originally written by Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>.