Getting help

The bring command-line interface is designed to be (mostly) self explanatory. Use the --help option to see available sub-commands and their options and general usage instructions.

> bring --help
Usage: bring [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  'bring' is a package manager for files and file-sets.

  'bring'-managed files that are part of so called 'indexes': collections of
  metadata items, each describing one specific file or file-set.

Options:
  -o, --output TEXT  which output plugins to use, defaults to 'terminal'
  -i, --index TEXT   one or several profile index(s), overwrites indexes in
                     configuration
  -c, --config TEXT  configuration option(s) and/or profile name(s)
  -h, --help         Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  install       install one or a list of packages
  explain       display context, index, pkg, or target information
  list          list packages for all registered indexes
  update        update index metadata
  export-index  export index folder metadata to file
  create        create bring-related elementes
  doc           documentation for application components
  self          utilites to manage/display info about this application