When invoking the client from the command line, the following options are supported:
The ownCloud Client reads a configuration file. You can locate this configuration files as follows:
The configuration file contains settings using the Microsoft Windows .ini file format. You can overwrite changes using the ownCloud configuration dialog.
Note
Use caution when making changes to the ownCloud Client configuration file. Incorrect settings can produce unintended results.
You can change the following configuration settings:
The ownCloud Client packages contain a command line client that can be used to synchronize ownCloud files to client machines. The command line client is called owncloudcmd.
owncloudcmd performs a single sync run and then exits the synchronization process. In this manner, owncloudcmd processes the differences between client and server directories and propagates the files to bring both repositories to the same state. Contrary to the GUI-based client, owncloudcmd does not repeat synchronizations on its own. It also does not monitor for file system changes.
To invoke owncloudcmd, you must provide the local and the remote repository URL using the following command:
owncloudcmd [OPTIONS...] sourcedir owncloudurl
where sourcedir is the local directory and owncloudurl is the server URL.
Note
Prior to the 1.6 version of owncloudcmd, the tool only accepted owncloud:// or ownclouds:// in place of http:// and https:// as a scheme. See Examples for details.
Other comand line switches supported by owncloudcmd include the following:
By default, owncloudcmd reads the client configuration and uses the credentials of the GUI synchronization client. If no client is configured, or if you choose to use a different user to synchronize, you can specify the user password setting with the usual URL pattern. For example:
https://user:secret@192.168.178.2/remote.php/webdav
To synchronize the ownCloud directory Music to the local directory media/music, through a proxy listening on port 8080, and on a gateway machine using IP address 192.168.178.1, the command line would be:
$ owncloudcmd --httpproxy http://192.168.178.1:8080 \
$HOME/media/music \
https://server/owncloud/remote.php/webdav/Music
owncloudcmd will enquire user name and password, unless they have been specified on the command line or -n has been passed.
Using the legacy scheme, the command line would be:
$ owncloudcmd --httpproxy http://192.168.178.1:8080 \
$HOME/media/music \
ownclouds://server/owncloud/remote.php/webdav/Music