occ doesn't support enabling/disabling multiple apps at once

[robert-scheck]

As of Nextcloud 14.0.0, occ still doesn't support enabling/disabling multiple apps at once:

$ ./occ --no-interaction app:enable richdocuments spreed

                                                              
  Too many arguments, expected arguments "command" "app-id".  
                                                              

app:enable [-g|--groups GROUPS] [--] <app-id>

$

$ ./occ --no-interaction app:disable richdocuments spreed

                                                              
  Too many arguments, expected arguments "command" "app-id".  
                                                              

app:disable <app-id>

$ 

Given that usage of occ is just slow (~ 0.75-1.25 seconds here), enabling/disabling apps takes a lot of time, especially in containers where e.g. some apps always should be (re-)enabled.

$ time ./occ --no-interaction app:enable richdocuments
richdocuments enabled

real	0m1.167s
user	0m0.632s
sys	0m0.407s
$ 

$ time ./occ --no-interaction app:disable richdocuments
richdocuments disabled

real	0m0.746s
user	0m0.546s
sys	0m0.182s
$ 

Yes, you could perform the steps on the database directly, but that likely isn't supported nor future-safe.

[robert-scheck]

This suggestion could be maybe less relevant if #11275 is being implemented instead, nevertheless it would be definitely nice to have the ability to specify multiple apps in a row.

[nextcloud-bot]

GitMate.io thinks possibly related issues are #8038 ("Your apps" does not indicate enabled/disabled apps), #7865 (Do not disable shipped apps on exceptions), #5928 (Support for multiple primary storage?), #6347 (Cannot enable External storage support), and #239 (Re-enable disabled »Official« apps during update).

[carloscomputer]

With the latest upgrade to 24.0.4 I got an error something went not good while upgrading, out of my experience it's belonging to apps they are not supporting the newer versions of Nextcloud. I was looking for a way to deactivate them all in one command.

0. sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ maintenance:mode --off
1. I did a list sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ app:list >> ~/app.list
2. I edit the list and took out all the version numbers and listing singes
3. I wehre running the list througt a variable with for i in $(cat ~/app.list) do sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ app:disable $i; done
4. and than sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ upgrade agian