03-03-2012
Creating and extracting archive file
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Hi there,
I wish to create a single .tar file of the current directory but have literally no idea on where to start
2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:
No idea on where to start...
3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):
No attempts as not sure on where to start
4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):
Birmingham University , Birmingham, United Kingdom , Dr Fayzel , 211CDE
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GHI(1) General Commands Manual GHI(1)
NAME
ghi - command-line interface to the GitHub Issues API
SYNOPSIS
ghi command [arguments] [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the ghi command.
ghi is a command-line interface to the GitHub Issues API. It can be used to access all of GitHub's documented Issues API (v2) functionality
from the command line: open, close and manipulate issues.
If no command is given, the default action is list. If a number is given instead, the default action is show.
COMMANDS
list [ -s open|closed|all ]
Show open, closed or all issues (choose with -s, see below). Default is open.
show number
Show issue number. This command can be invoked also as ghi <number>.
open [ number ], o [ number ]
Create a new issue, and launch $EDITOR. If number is given, reopens that issue.
open -m message, o -m message
Create a new issue with message content (optionally, use
for new lines; first line will be the issue title).
close number, c number
Closes issue number.
edit number, e number
Edit issue number with $EDITOR.
label add|remove label number
Add or remove label to/from issue number.
You can use al or rl instead of, respectively, label add and label remove.
search term, s term
Search for term.
comment number, m number
Create a comment for issue number (with $EDITOR).
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-v, --verbose
Show issue details (only for show, list and search commands). Default is false.
-V, --version
Show program's version number and exit.
-s STATE, --state=STATE
Specify state (only for list and search (except "all") commands). Choices are: open (o), closed (c), all (a). Default is open.
-r REPO, --repo=REPO, --repository=REPO
Specify a repository. The format: "user/repo" or just "repo" (latter will get the user from the global git config).
-w, --web, --webbrowser
Show issue(s) GitHub page in web browser (only for list and show commands). Default is false.
AUTHOR
github-cli was written by Sander Smits <jhmsmits@gmail.com>.
This manual page was written by David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
April 13, 2010 GHI(1)