CLI Operation
The gopherbot
binary can run as both a daemon and a command-line interface, mainly used for generating encrypted secrets. This section discusses running Gopherbot's CLI utility commands.
Setting up For CLI Operation
You'll need to create a dev environment, using either a container or local install, then run gopherbot
at least once to run the bootstrap plugin and populate the custom/
subdirectory. Once bootstrapping finishes, you can press <ctrl-d>
to exit from the robot, or open a separate terminal window in the same directory.
Note that the following examples assume
gopherbot
in the current directory is a symlink to/opt/gopherbot/gopherbot
, and commands start with./gopherbot ...
. If you're using the container web dev environment, you can just usegopherbot
, since it'll be in your$PATH
.
CLI Commands
Help
$ ./gopherbot --help
Usage: gopherbot [options] [command [command options] [command args]]
"command" can be one of:
decrypt - decrypt a string or file
encrypt - encrypt a string or file
...
Encrypting and Decrypting Strings
You'll use this later in the exercise on adding plugins:
$ ./gopherbot encrypt MyLousyPassword
+LrXWBPZrbO0aJVI/lCKHR81mcD9v0LvrHojvU/qDia2lpjFNN/t+D0e5g==
$ ./gopherbot decrypt +LrXWBPZrbO0aJVI/lCKHR81mcD9v0LvrHojvU/qDia2lpjFNN/t+D0e5g==
MyLousyPassword