Command Line Reference

SnowFox is built out of many binareis and tools. These all have their own command line parameters and options.

Choosing a parser

SnowFox allows the user to select which parser will be used to process command line arguments. This is done to allow flexibility for the needs of the future focusing on the needs of the now and supporting backward compatibility.

To accomplish this a special --parser option is available. Because this is processed before a parser for the command line is selected there are a few restrictions on this options:

• It must be the first option given.
• It must be in the format --parser=PARSER.
• The PARSER must be one of the available parsers.

Some examples:

• snow-fox --parser gflags is not valid (there is no =).
• snow-fox --user snow-fox --parser=gflags is not valid (not the first argument).
• snow-fox --parser=gflags --user snow-fox is valid!

Supported parsers

At the time, only one parser is supported: the gflags parser.

Default parser

If the --parser=PARSER option is not specified the default parser is gflags.

This documentation presents the arguments for the default parser. When an option has a different format for other parsers, this will be indicated in the detailed description of the option. If an option is not available in all parsers, this will be noted in the detailed description too.

Binaries

This section lists all the command line tools available to use and the available options: