1The blobcli tool has several options that are listed by using the -h command 2however the three operating modes are covered in more detail here: 3 4Command Mode 5------------ 6This is the default and will just execute one command at a time. It's simple 7but the downside is that if you are going to interact quite a bit with the 8blobstore, the startup time for the application can be cumbersome. 9 10Shell Mode 11---------- 12You startup shell mode by using the -S command. At that point you will get 13a "blob>" prompt where you can enter any of the commands, including -h, 14to execute them. You can stil enter just one at a time but the initial 15startup time for the application will not get in the way between commands 16anymore so it is much more usable. 17 18Script (aka test) Mode 19---------------------- 20In script mode you just supply one command with a filename when you start 21the cli, for example `blobcli -T test.bs` will feed the tool the file 22called test.bs which contains a series of commands that will all run 23automatically and, like shell mode, will only initialize one time so is 24quick. 25 26The script file format (example) is shown below. Comments are allowed and 27each line should contain one valid command (and its parameters) only. In 28order to operate on blobs via their ID value, use the token $Bn where n 29represents the instance of the blob created in the script. 30 31For example, the line `-s $B0` will operate on the blobid of the first 32blob created in the script (0 index based). `$B2` represents the third 33blob created in the script. 34 35If you start test mode with the additional "ignore" option, any invalid 36script lines will simply be skipped, otherwise the tool will exit if 37it runs into an invalid line (ie './blobcli -T test.bs ignore`). 38 39Sample test/bs file: 40~~~{.sh} 41# this is a comment 42-i 43-s bs 44-l bdevs 45-n 1 46-s bs 47-s $B0 48-n 2 49-s $B1 50-m $B0 Makefile 51-d $B0 M.blob 52-f $B1 65 53-d $B1 65.blob 54-s bs 55-x $B0 b0key boval 56-x $B1 b1key b1val 57-r $B0 b0key 58-s $B0 59-s $B1 60-s bs 61~~~ 62