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authorRob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com>2009-06-12 13:26:15 -0400
committerRob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com>2009-06-15 14:03:12 -0400
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Two new arguments for the help built-in command: topics and commands
ipa help topics will show all topics (equivalent to ipa help) ipa help commands will show list of all available commands
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ipalib/cli.py b/ipalib/cli.py
index b7f840cf8..6dc0c0682 100644
--- a/ipalib/cli.py
+++ b/ipalib/cli.py
@@ -475,16 +475,21 @@ class help(frontend.Command):
super(help, self).finalize()
def run(self, key):
- if key is None:
+ name = from_cli(key)
+ if key is None or name == "topics":
self.print_topics()
return
- name = from_cli(key)
if name in self._topics:
self.print_commands(name)
elif name in self.Command:
cmd = self.Command[name]
print 'Purpose: %s' % cmd.doc
self.Backend.cli.build_parser(cmd).print_help()
+ elif name == "commands":
+ mcl = max(len(s) for s in (self.Command))
+ for cname in self.Command:
+ cmd = self.Command[cname]
+ print '%s %s' % (to_cli(cmd.name).ljust(mcl), cmd.doc)
else:
raise HelpError(topic=name)