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Installation

This page will help you install cli-kintone.

From binary file​

  1. Jump to the Releases page.
  2. Download a ZIP file for your platform from "Assets".
    • Windows: cli-kintone_${version}_win.zip
    • Linux: cli-kintone_${version}_linux.zip
    • macOS: cli-kintone_${version}_macos.zip
  3. Extract the downloaded zip file
  4. Run the extracted file as follows and confirm that the command is available.
    • Windows: cli-kintone.exe on command prompt
    • Linux & macOS: ./cli-kintone on terminal

Run cli-kintone from anywhere​

To run the cli-kintone command from any directory, do one of the following:

  • Run the command while specifying the absolute path
  • Set the PATH environment
  • Move the cli-kintone file to the /usr/local/bin directory (for Linux & macOS)

Command completion​

cli-kintone provides a command-completion feature that lets you use the Tab key to complete a partially entered command.

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cli-kintone command completion is now supported for bash and zsh shells.

zsh​

To enable it in zsh, cd to the directory that contains the cli-kintone executable file, then run the following commands:

# 1. Set PATH environment variables
echo "export PATH=$(pwd):\$PATH" >> ~/.zshrc

# 2. Create and configure a directory to store the completion scripts
mkdir -p ~/.zsh_completion.d/
echo 'fpath=(~/.zsh_completion.d $fpath)' >> ~/.zshrc

# 3. Enable bash-autocomplete feature
echo 'autoload bashcompinit && bashcompinit' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'autoload -Uz compinit && compinit' >> ~/.zshrc

# 4. Create command completion script
./cli-kintone completion >> ~/.zsh_completion.d/_cli-kintone

# 5. Reload zsh
source ~/.zshrc

bash​

To enable it in bash, cd to the directory that contains the cli-kintone executable file, then run the following commands:

# 1. Create command completion script
mkdir -p ~/.bash_completion.d
./cli-kintone completion >> ~/.bash_completion.d/_cli-kintone

# 2. Add command completion script to bash

# For login shell
echo "export PATH=$(pwd):\$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'source ~/.bash_completion.d/_cli-kintone' >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

# For non-login shell
echo "export PATH=$(pwd):\$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'source ~/.bash_completion.d/_cli-kintone' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

For Windows OS​

For Windows OS, you can use cli-kintone command completion via bash on WSL2

Steps:

  1. Install Linux on Windows with WSL. Ref: WSL2.
  2. Open a new Linux Terminal.
  3. Download and extract executables from the Linux package.
  4. Run the same commands as the bash section.