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29.Dd September 13, 2019
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
80As of present, the
81.Nm
82module by default provides commands for
83.Ic autoboot ,
84.Ic boot ,
85.Ic boot-conf ,
86and
87.Ic reload-conf .
88.Pp
89For
90.Ic autoboot ,
91.Ic boot ,
92and
93.Ic boot-conf ,
94the
95.Xr core.lua 8
96module will load all ELF modules as-needed before executing the equivalent
97built-in loader commands.
98All non-kernel arguments to these commands are passed in the same order to the
99loader command.
100.Pp
101The
102.Ic reload-conf
103command will reload the configuration from disk.
104This is useful if you have manually changed currdev and would like to easily
105reload the configuration from the new device.
106.Ss Exported Functions
107The following functions are exported from
108.Nm :
109.Bl -tag -width cli.arguments -offset indent
110.It Fn cli.arguments ...
111Takes varargs passed on the stack from
112.Xr loader 8
113to
114.Ic cli_execute ,
115splits them out into two return values: the command name, traditionally argv[0],
116and the rest of argv.
117.El
118.Sh SEE ALSO
119.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
120.Xr core.lua 8 ,
121.Xr loader 8
122.Sh AUTHORS
123The
124.Nm
125file was originally written by
126.An Kyle Evans Aq Mt kevans@FreeBSD.org .
127