[Gluster-users] Proposal for third party sub commands for Gluster CLI

[Vijay Bellur]

On 04/18/2016 02:59 AM, Aravinda wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As many of you aware, git supports external subcommand support which
> enables users to extend the functionality around git.
>
> Create a shell script "git-hello" as below and place it anywhere in
> system(should be available in $PATH)
>
>      #!/bin/bash
>      echo "Hello World"
>
> Make this script executable, (chmod +x /usr/local/bin/git-hello)
>
> This can be executed as `git-hello` or `git hello` (Other example is
> git-review tool, can be executed as git-review or git review)
>
> Similarly we can have sub command support for Gluster CLI. If any
> script/binary available in PATH env with the name gluster-<CMD> can be
> executed as `gluster <CMD>`
>
> Let me know what you guys think about this feature. I am also planning
> to add this feature to
> glustertool(https://github.com/gluster/glustertool)
>

+1 to this idea. I think projects built around gluster can certainly 
benefit from such a feature.

-Vijay