list all contexts

icontext ls

switch to context

icontext use <server>[:<user>]

switch to default context

icontext unuse

Note: this command will set

IRODS_ENVIRONMENT_FILE=~/.irods/irods_environment.json
IRODS_AUTHENTICATION_FILE=~/.irods/.irodsA

get server and user of current context

icontext which

show configuration

configuration of current context

icontext describe

configuration for given server user

icontext describe <server> <user>

create context

interactive dialog

icontext create [OPTIONS]

Create options:

• --with-ssl
• --with-pam
• --without-ssl
• --without-pam
• --port
• --host

interactive with server name

icontext create [OPTIONS] <server>

interactive with server name and user name

icontext create [OPTIONS] <server> <user>

clone

Clone a configuration. Use icontext clone to copy a configuration and then icontext configure to configure the cloned configuration.

icontext clone [OPTIONS] <server> <user> <new_server> <new_user>

rename

icontext rename <server> <user> <new_server> <new_user>

reconfigure

icontext configure [OPTIONS] <server> <user>

or

icontext edit [OPTIONS] <server> <user>

delete

icontext delete [OPTIONS] <server> <user>

activate tab completion and variable export

For Bash, add this to ~/.bashrc:

eval "$(_ICONTEXT_COMPLETE=source_bash icontext)"

For Zsh, add this to ~/.zshrc:

(not supported yet)

eval "$(_ICONTEXT_COMPLETE=source_zsh icontext)"

For Fish, add this to ~/.config/fish/completions/foo-bar.fish:

(not supported yet)

eval (env _ICONTEXT_COMPLETE=source_fish icontext)

reads

• https://systemdump.io/posts/2017-05-06-openstack-cliff
• https://docs.openstack.org/cliff/latest/user/demoapp.html