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Microsoft Azure Command-Line Interactive Shell

Project description

The interactive shell for Microsoft Azure CLI (Command Line Interface)

  • Interactive Tutorials

  • Lightweight Drop Down Completions

  • Auto Cached Suggestions

  • Dynamic parameter completion

  • Defaulting scopes of commands

  • On the fly descriptions of the commands AND parameters

  • On the fly examples of how to utilize each command

  • Optional “az” component

  • Query the previous command

  • Navigation of example pane

  • Optional layout configurations

  • Fun Colors

Running

To start the application

$ az shell

Then type your commands and hit [Enter]

To use commands outside the application

$ #[command]

To Search through the last command as json jmespath format for querying

$ ? [param]

Note: Only if the previous command dumps out json, e.g. vm list

To only see the commands for a command

$ %% [top-level command] [sub-level command] etc

To undefault a value

$ %% ..

Use Examples

Type a command, for example:

$ vm create

Look at the examples

Scroll through the pane with Control Y for up and Control N for down #

Pick the example you want with:

$ vm create :: [Example Number]

Dev Setup

Fork and clone repository

$ . dev_setup.py

To get the Exit Code of the previous command:

$ $

Clear History

Only clears the appended suggestion when you restart the shell

$ clear-history

Release History

0.3.20

  • Allow interactive completers to function with positional arguments.

  • More user-friendly output when users type ‘'.

  • Fix completions for parameters with no help.

  • Fix descriptions for command-groups.

0.3.19

  • Stops completions upon unrecognized commands.

  • Add event hooks before and after command subtree is created.

  • Allow completions for –ids parameters.

  • sdist is now compatible with wheel 0.31.0

0.3.18

  • Completions kick in as soon as command table loading is done.

  • Fix bug with using –style parameter.

  • Interactive lexer instantiated after command table dump if missing.

  • Improvements to completer support.

0.3.17

  • Persist history across different sessions

  • Fixed history while in scope

  • Updates to interactive telemetry

  • Fixed progress meter for long running operations

  • Completions more robust to command table exceptions

0.3.16

  • Fix issue where user is prompted to login when using interactive mode in Cloud Shell.

  • Fixed regression with missing parameter completions.

0.3.15

  • Fixed issue where command option completions no longer appeared.

0.3.14

  • Clean up unused test files

0.3.13

  • Fix issue where interactive would not start on Python 2.

  • Fix errors on start up

  • Fix some commands not running in interactive mode

0.3.12

  • Update for CLI core changes.

0.3.11

  • minor fixes

0.3.10 (2017-09-22)

  • minor fixes

0.3.9 (2017-08-31)

  • minor fixes

0.3.8 (2017-08-28)

  • minor fixes

0.3.7 (2017-07-27)

  • Improves the start up time by using cached commands

0.3.7 (2017-07-27)

  • Increase test coverage

0.3.5 (2017-06-21)

  • Enhance the ‘?’ gesture to also inject into the next command

0.3.4 (2017-06-13)

  • Fixes Interactive errors with the profile 2017-03-09-profile-preview (#3587)

  • Allows ‘–version’ as a parameter for interactive mode (#3645)

  • Stop Interactive Mode from Throwing errors from Validation completions (#3570)

  • Progress Reporting for template deployments (#3510)

0.3.3 (2017-05-30)

  • –progress flag

  • Removed –debug and –verbose from completions

0.3.2 (2017-05-18)

  • Bug fixes.

  • Remove ‘interactive’ from completions (#3324)

0.3.1 (2017-05-09)

  • Add link to blog in ‘az interactive —help’ (#3252)

0.3.0 (2017-05-05)

  • Integrate interactive into az

  • Colors Options

  • Rename ‘shell’ => ‘interactive’

0.2.1

  • CLI Performance changes integrated

0.2.0

  • Public Preview release

0.1.1

  • Preview release

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