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Help |
The help
command is a good way to become familiar with all that Nu has to offer.
> help commands
To find more specific information on a command, use help <COMMAND>
. This works for regular commands (i.e. http
) and subcommands (i.e. http get
):
> help http get
Output:
Fetch the contents from a URL.
Performs HTTP GET operation.
Search terms: network, fetch, pull, request, download, curl, wget
Usage:
> http get {flags} <URL>
Flags:
-h, --help - Display the help message for this command
-u, --user <Any> - the username when authenticating
-p, --password <Any> - the password when authenticating
-t, --timeout <Int> - timeout period in seconds
-H, --headers <Any> - custom headers you want to add
-r, --raw - fetch contents as text rather than a table
Signatures:
<nothing> | http get <string> -> <any>
Parameters:
URL <string>: the URL to fetch the contents from
Examples:
http get content from example.com
> http get https://www.example.com
http get content from example.com, with username and password
> http get -u myuser -p mypass https://www.example.com
http get content from example.com, with custom header
> http get -H [my-header-key my-header-value] https://www.example.com