Shell Scope

The commands within the shell: scope are used to provide terminal window commands in the OSGi shell.

Shell Scope commands
Command	Parameters	Description
shell:alias	command	Creates an alias to a command.
shell:cat	[options] [paths or urls]	Displays the content of a file or URL. Where paths or urls is a list of file paths or urls to display separated by whitespace (use - for STDIN)
shell:clear		Clears the console buffer.
shell:completion	[mode]	Displays or changes the completion mode on the current console session. Where mode is the completion mode to set. The valid completion modes are: `global`, `first`, `subshell`.
shell:date	[options] [format]	Displays the current time in the given FORMAT.
shell:each	values function	Executes a closure on a list of arguments. Where: values is the collection of arguments to iterate on function is the function to execute
shell:echo	[options] [arguments]	Echoes or prints arguments to STDOUT, separated by whitespaces.
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shell:env	variable [value]	Gets/sets the value of a console session variable.
shell:exec	command	Executes system processes.
shell:grep	[options] pattern	Prints lines matching the given pattern, in regular expression.
shell:head	[options] [paths or urls]	Displays the first lines of a file. Where paths or urls is a list of file paths or urls to display separated by whitespaces.
shell:history		Prints commands history.
shell:if	condition ifTrue [ifFalse]	If/Then/Else block.
shell:info		Prints system information.
shell:java	[options] className [arguments]	Executes a Java standard application.
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shell:logout		Disconnects shell from current session.
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shell:new	class [args]	Creates a new java object.
shell:printf	format arguments	Formats and prints arguments.
shell:sleep	[options] duration	Sleeps for a defined duration then wakes up. The default time unit is millisecond, use -s option to use second instead.
shell:sort	[options] [files]	Writes sorted concatenation of all files to standard output, separated by whitespaces.
shell:source	script [args]	Runs a script. Where: script is a URI pointing to the script args are arguments for the script
shell:stack-traces-print	[print]	Prints the full stack trace in the console when the execution of a command throws an exception.
shell:tac	[options]	Captures the STDIN and returns it as a string. Optionally writes the content to a file.
shell:tail	[options] [path or url]	Displays the last lines of a file. Where path or url is a file path or url to display.
shell:threads	[options] [id]	Prints the current threads (optionally with stacktraces).
shell:watch	[options] command	Watches & refreshes the output of a command.
shell:wc	[options] [files]	Prints newline, word, and byte counts for each file.
shell:while	condition function	Loops while the condition is true.Where: condition is the condition of the loop function is the function to execute

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