New coapp command line interface

CoApp Command line client interface

The CoApp command line client has a simple, yet flexible interface.

When redirecting or piping the results of a CoApp command, the tool will suppress cosmetic formatting and simply list the results of the given command (very useful for chaining the results of one execution into another).

General Usage:

CoApp [options] <command> <parameters>

Commands

All commands are in the form verb-noun (similar to powershell cmdlets) and can be followed by zero or more parameters.

Any commands that takes parameters after the command will accept a list of packages on the command line or via stdin.

List Packages

list-package <pkg-spec>...

Get Package Information

get-packageinfo <pkg-spec>...

Install Package

install-package <pkg-spec>...

Remove Package

remove-package <pkg-spec>...

Update Package

update-package <pkg-spec>...

Trim unused packages

trim 

set package to active

activate-package <pkg-spec>...

Block a package from upgrading

block-package <pkg-spec>...

Unblock a package

unblock-package <pkg-spec>...

Mark a package as 'user requested'

mark-package <pkg-spec>...

Unmark a package as 'user requested'

unmark-package <pkg-spec>...

List Package Feeds

list-feed

Add Package Feed

add-feed <feed-location>...

Remove Package Feed

remove-feed <feed-location>...

Parameters

Specifying packages

<pkg-spec>...

Packages have a canonical name (in the form packagename-##.##.##.##-arch-publickeytoken) which uniquely identifies it apart from other packages. Commands expecting a package name will always take the full canonical name or alternatively, the user can provide a partial name and CoApp will attempt to determine what the user is requesting.

Generally there are three types of inputs that can be specified for the package:

• a canonical package name (or partial canonical name)
• a local path (to either a package file or a package directory for use as a package feed )
• a URL (to either a remote package file, or a package atom feed for use as a package feed )

Specifying package feed locations

<feed-location>...

Generally there are two types of inputs that can be specified for package feeds:

• a local path (to either a package file or a package directory for use as a package feed )
• a URL (to either a remote package file, or a package atom feed for use as a package feed )

Options