This is a command line shell for the OpenSwitch project.

Documentation on adding new commands is in NEW-COMMAND.md. For more information on the internal workings, see DESIGN.md.

Features

Fully readline-compatible command line
Tab completion on all commands and options
Modular and dynamically pluggable commands
Inline help on commands and options
Per-subsystem debug facility
Tokenizing parser with automatic type checking
Expressive command module syntax for declaring options
Nested contexts with custom command trees
Running config infrastructure

TODO

Better exception/error message integration
Options ordering
Better OVSDB link
Full page help on commands
Terminal size and paging
Output filter (grep, skip)
Syntax highlighting