Builtin Commands¶
Applications which subclass cmd2.Cmd
inherit a number of commands
which may be useful to your users. Developers can
Remove Builtin Commands if they do not want
them to be part of the application.
List of Builtin Commands¶
alias¶
This command manages aliases via subcommands create
, delete
, and
list
. See Aliases for more
information.
edit¶
This command launches an editor program and instructs it to open the given file name. Here’s an example:
(Cmd) edit ~/.ssh/config
The program to be launched is determined by the value of the editor setting.
help¶
This command lists available commands or provides detailed help for a specific
command. When called with the -v/--verbose
argument, it shows a brief
description of each command. See Help for more
information.
history¶
This command allows you to view, run, edit, save, or clear previously entered commands from the history. See History for more information.
ipy¶
This optional opt-in command enters an interactive IPython shell. See IPython (optional) for more information.
macro¶
This command manages macros via subcommands create
, delete
, and
list
. A macro is similar to an alias, but it can contain argument
placeholders. See Macros for more
information.
py¶
This command invokes a Python command or shell. See Embedded Python Shells for more information.
quit¶
This command exits the cmd2
application.
run_pyscript¶
This command runs a Python script file inside the cmd2
application.
See Python Scripts for more information.
run_script¶
This command runs commands in a script file that is encoded as either ASCII or UTF-8 text. See Command Scripts for more information.
_relative_run_script¶
This command is hidden from the help that’s visible to end users. It runs a script like run_script but does so using a path relative to the script that is currently executing. This is useful when you have scripts that run other scripts. See Running Command Scripts for more information.
set¶
A list of all user-settable parameters, with brief comments, is viewable from within a running application:
(Cmd) set --verbose
allow_style: 'Terminal' # Allow ANSI text style sequences in output (valid values: Terminal, Always, Never)
always_show_hint: False # Display tab completion hint even when completion suggestions print
debug: True # Show full traceback on exception
echo: False # Echo command issued into output
editor: 'vi' # Program used by 'edit'
feedback_to_output: False # Include nonessentials in '|', '>' results
max_completion_items: 50 # Maximum number of CompletionItems to display during tab completion
quiet: False # Don't print nonessential feedback
timing: False # Report execution times
Any of these user-settable parameters can be set while running your app with
the set
command like so:
(Cmd) set allow_style Never
See Settings for more information.
shell¶
Execute a command as if at the operating system shell prompt:
(Cmd) shell pwd -P
/usr/local/bin
Remove Builtin Commands¶
Developers may not want to offer the commands builtin to cmd2.Cmd
to users of their application. To remove a command you must delete the method
implementing that command from the cmd2.Cmd
object at runtime.
For example, if you wanted to remove the shell
command from your application:
class NoShellApp(cmd2.Cmd):
"""A simple cmd2 application."""
delattr(cmd2.Cmd, 'do_shell')