yregaieg/alfresco-cli

Command line interface for interacting with an Alfresco Repository

Alfresco CLI - Command line interface for Alfresco

Interact with the Alfresco repository with an interactive command line.

Target Audience

• Alfresco Developers and Architects

Installation

From NPM

• Run npm install -g alfresco-cli

Available at https://www.npmjs.com/package/alfresco-cli

From GitHub

• Clone the repository

• Install using npm install -g && npm link

Features

• Performs Alfresco operations from the terminal.

• Autocompletes node names for valid operations.

• Performs glob pattern matching for filename related operations.

• Maintains a session with a valid token, automatically persists within terminal sessions.

• Maintains a local command history

Usage

• Call alfresco-cli from your terminal.

Logging in

Type login --help to read the help on logging in to the system and fetch an authentication token for the CLI.

Changing into a node

Use cd <nodeId>, where nodeId is the node ID of the nodeRef you want to change to.

Listing contents (chldren) within a node

Use ls or ls <nodeId> to list contents within a node.

Uploading files

Use upload <filePath> [destinationNodeId] to upload new files to Alfresco.

Search for contents

Use search <query> [language] to search for contents.

Commands and Operations

• Login

• Logout

• List files

• List sites

• Upload files

• Download files [TBD]

• View Metadata

Aliases Reference

You can use the following aliases within commands.

• . - current folder/content

• .. - parent folder/content

License

MIT License

Author

• Bhagya Nirmaan Silva (bhagyas, about.me/bhagyas)

Development Sponsors

• Loftux AB

Privacy Policy

There are no analytics gathered upon the use of the tool. However, the author reserves the right to add analytics on a later release to improve features provided by the tool.

Contributors

• Bindu Wavell (binduwavell)

Version History

• 1.4 - 20181106

  • Major Added glob expansion support for mkdir

  • Improved glob matching

  • Improved error handling

• 1.3.5 - 20181031

  • Improved delete command (delete)

• 1.3.4 - 20181029

  • Added cls for clearing screen (@binduwavell)

  • Added -p --pretty for pretty printing debug output (@binduwavell)

• 1.3 - 20181028

  • Major: Improved login command.

  • Added auto completion for site names when using change site command.

• 1.2.3 - 20181026

  • Added search results auto completion in the results history.

  • Added alias set|clear commands for adding aliases for search queries.

  • Added glob pattern matching for list and delete commands.

• 1.2.2 - 20181026

  • Added better delete function with confirmation prompt.

  • Added undo delete to restore last deleted node.

• 1.2.1 - 20181025

  • Added list versions command.

• 1.2 - 20181025

  • Major: Adding folder name auto completion

  • Added delete command with support for deleting child nodes.

• 1.1 - 20181024

  • Converted the code to Typescript

  • Added support for node name as an alias for nodeId when referred from a valid context.

  • Added create user, create site, cd-site, search commands.

  • Added support for . and .. aliases.

• 1.0 - 20181023

  • Initial release