Koha is the first free software library automation package. Robin Sheat Catalyst IT http://www.catalyst.net.nz Author koha-shell 8 koha-shell Gives you a shell with the user and environment set to make it easy to do koha operations. UNIX/Linux koha-shell --command|-c COMMAND --help|-h --login|-l --preserve-environment|-p|-m --shell|-s SHELL --verbose|-v instancename --command Run the specified command rather than launching a shell. --help Show a usage synopsis. --login Make the shell a login shell. --preserve-environment Preserve the current environment (note that if you run it through 'sudo', this may not work as you'd expect.) --shell Run the specified shell. The default is the shell of the current environment, followed by /bin/sh. --verbose Show the command that is going to be run. This launches a shell with the user and required environment variables set in such a way that running any Koha commands will work correctly. With the use of '-c', it can be used to easily run commands in the correct environment. It behaves mostly as a wrapper for su(1), so a deeper discussion of the options can be found in there. To get a shell: $ sudo koha-shell library To run a command: $ sudo koha-shell -c "/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl -b -file data.marc" library koha-foreach(8) su(1)