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29.Dd July 24, 2021
30.Dt CLI.LUA 8
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm cli.lua
34.Nd FreeBSD Lua CLI module
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36.Nm
37contains the main functionality required to add new CLI commands, which can be
38executed at the loader prompt.
39.Pp
40Before hooking into the functionality provided by
41.Nm ,
42it must be included with a statement such as the following:
43.Pp
44.Dl local cli = require("cli")
45.Ss Adding new commands
46New loader commands may be created by adding functions to the object returned by
47requiring the
48.Nm
49module.
50.Pp
51For instance:
52.Pp
53.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
54local cli = require("cli")
55
56cli.foo = function(...)
57	-- Expand args to command name and the rest of argv.  These arguments
58	-- are pushed directly to the stack by loader, then handed off to
59	-- cli_execute.  cli_execute then passes them on to the invoked
60	-- function, where they appear as varargs that must be peeled apart into
61	-- their respective components.
62	local _, argv = cli.arguments(...)
63
64	print("This is the foo command!")
65	for k, v in ipairs(argv) do
66		print("arg #" .. tostring(k) .. ": '" .. v .. "'")
67	end
68	-- Perform a loader command directly.  This will not get dispatched back
69	-- to Lua, so it is acceptable to have a function of the exact same name
70	-- in loader.  Lua will have the first chance to handle any commands
71	-- executed at the loader prompt.
72	loader.perform("foo")
73end
74.Ed
75.Pp
76This function may be invoked by a user at the loader prompt by simply typing
77.Ic foo .
78Arguments may be passed to it as usual, space-delimited.
79.Ss Default Commands
80The
81.Nm
82module provides the following default commands:
83.Bl -bullet
84.\"-width toggle-module -offset indent
85.It
86.Ic autoboot
87.It
88.Ic boot
89.It
90.Ic boot-conf
91.It
92.Ic reload-conf
93.It
94.Ic disable-device
95.It
96.Ic disable-module
97.It
98.Ic enable-module
99.It
100.Ic toggle-module
101.It
102.Ic show-module-options
103.El
104.Pp
105For
106.Ic autoboot ,
107.Ic boot ,
108and
109.Ic boot-conf ,
110the
111.Xr core.lua 8
112module will load all ELF modules as-needed before executing the equivalent
113built-in loader commands.
114All non-kernel arguments to these commands are passed in the same order to the
115loader command.
116.Pp
117The
118.Ic reload-conf
119command will reload the configuration from disk.
120This is useful if you have manually changed currdev and would like to easily
121reload the configuration from the new device.
122.Pp
123The
124.Ic enable-module ,
125.Ic disable-module ,
126and
127.Ic toggle-module
128commands manipulate the list of modules to be loaded along with the kernel.
129Modules blacklisted are considered disabled by
130.Ic toggle-module .
131These commands will override any such restriction as needed.
132The
133.Ic show-module-options
134command will dump the list of modules that loader has been made aware of and
135any applicable options using paged output.
136.Pp
137The
138.Ic disable-device
139command sets the environment variable that disables the device argument.
140.Ss Exported Functions
141The following functions are exported from
142.Nm :
143.Bl -tag -width cli.arguments -offset indent
144.It Fn cli.arguments ...
145Takes varargs passed on the stack from
146.Xr loader 8
147to
148.Ic cli_execute ,
149splits them out into two return values: the command name, traditionally argv[0],
150and the rest of argv.
151.El
152.Sh SEE ALSO
153.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
154.Xr core.lua 8 ,
155.Xr loader 8
156.Sh AUTHORS
157The
158.Nm
159file was originally written by
160.An Kyle Evans Aq Mt kevans@FreeBSD.org .
161