nextcloud-desktop/man/nextcloudcmd.1.rst

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nextcloudcmd(1) —————

SYNOPSIS

nextcloudcmd [OPTIONS...] sourcedir nextcloudurl

DESCRIPTION

nextcloudcmd is the command line tool used for the nextCloud file synchronization desktop utility.

Contrary to the nextcloud(1) GUI client, nextcloudcmd only performs a single sync run and then exits. In so doing, nextcloudcmd replaces the ocsync binary used for the same purpose in earlier releases.

A sync run synchronizes a single local directory using a WebDAV share on a remote nextCloud server.

To invoke the command line client, provide the local and the remote repository: The first parameter is the local directory. The second parameter is the server URL.

Note

Prior to the 1.6 release of nextcloudcmd, the tool only accepted owncloud:// or ownclouds:// in place of http:// and https:// as a scheme. See Examples for details.

OPTIONS

--path

Overrides default remote root folder to a specific subfolder on the server(e.g.: /Documents would sync the Documents subfolder on the server)

—user, -u [user]

Use user as the login name.

—password, -p [password]

Use password as the password.

-n

Use netrc (5) for login.

—non-interactive

Do not prompt for questions.

—silent, —s

Inhibits verbose log output.

—trust

Trust any SSL certificate, including invalid ones.

—httpproxy http://[user@pass:]<server>:<port>

Uses server as HTTP proxy.

—exclude [file]

Exclude list file

—unsyncedfolders [file]

File containing the list of unsynced folders (selective sync)

—max-sync-retries [n]

Retries maximum n times (defaults to 3)

-h

Sync hidden files,do not ignore them

Example

To synchronize the nextCloud directory Music to the local directory media/music through a proxy listening on port 8080 on the gateway machine 192.168.178.1, the command line would be:

$ nextcloudcmd —httpproxy http://192.168.178.1:8080 --path /Music \
              $HOME/media/music \
              https://server/nextcloud

nextcloudcmd will enquire user name and password, unless they have been specified on the command line or -n (see netrc(5)) has been passed.

Using the legacy scheme, it would be:

$ nextcloudcmd —httpproxy http://192.168.178.1:8080 --path /Music \
              $HOME/media/music \
              ownclouds://server/nextcloud

BUGS

Please report bugs at https://github.com/nextcloud/client/issues.

SEE ALSO

nextcloud(1)