Commands

Use

The command line tool can be invoked in several different ways:

bnd ‘‘general-options’’ ‘‘cmd’’ ‘‘cmd-options’’
bnd ‘‘general-options’’ ‘‘.jar''
bnd ‘‘general-options’’ ‘‘.bnd''

In this text bnd is used as if it is a command line program. This should be set up as:

java -jar .jar ...

General Options

	!General Option		!Description
	-failok		Same as the property -failok. The current run will create a JAR file even if there were errors.
	-exceptions		Will print the exception when the software has ran into a bad exception and bails out. Normally only a message is printed. For debugging or diagnostic reasons, the exception stack trace can be very helpful.

Main options

[ -f, --full ]             - Do full
[ -p, --project <string> ] - Identify another project
[ -t, --test ]             - Build for test
[ -o, --output <string> ]  - Specify the output file path. The default is
                            output.jar in the current directory

Reference

create: Create a JAR
baseline [options] <[newer jar]> <[older jar]>: Compare a newer bundle to a baselined bundle and provide versioning advice.
bash: Generate autocompletion file for bash
bnd: The swiss army tool for OSGi
bootstrap: Interactive gogo shell
bsn2url: From a set of bsns, create a list of urls if found in the repo
build [options]: Build a project. This will create the jars defined in the bnd.bnd and sub-builders.
buildx [options]: Build project, is deprecated but here for backward compatibility. If you use it, you should know how to use it so no more info is provided.
bump [options] <<major|minor|micro>>: Bumps the version of a project. Will take the current version and then increment with a major, minor, or micro increment. The default bump is minor.
changes [options]: Show the changes in this release of bnd
clean [options] ...: Clean a project
convert [options] <[from]> <[to]>: Converter to different formats
action [options] ...: Equivalent jar command c[v0mf] command (supports the jar tool's syntax). Will wrap the bundle unless --wrapnot is specified
debug [options] ...: Show a lot of info about the project you're in
defaults
deliverables [options]: Show all deliverables from this workspace. with their current version and path.
diff [options] <[newer file]> <[older file]>: Compares two jars. Without specifying the JARs (and when there is a current project) the jars of this project are diffed against their baseline in the baseline repository, using the sub-builder's options (these can be overridden). If one JAR is given, the tree is shown. Otherwise 2 JARs must be specified and they are then compared to each other.
digest [options] <[file...]>: Digest a number of files
do [options] ...: Execute a file based on its extension. Supported extensions are bnd (build), bndrun (run), and jar (print)
eclipse pde [options] <[repo-dir]> <[...]>: Import PDE projects into a bnd workspace
eclipse [options]: Show info about the current directory's eclipse project
ees <[jar-file]...>: Show the Execution Environments of a JAR
enroute ...: enRoute commands
exportreport <sub-cmd> [options]: Generate and export reports of a workspace, a project or of a Jar.
extract [options] ...: Extract files from a JAR file, equivalent jar command x[vf] (syntax supported)
find [options] <[file]...>: Go through the exports and/or imports and match the given exports/imports globs. If they match, print the file, package and version.
generate: Generate autocompletion file for bash
grep [options] <[pattern]> <[file]...>: Grep the manifest of bundles/jar files.
identity
index [options] <[bundles]...>: Index bundles from the local file system
info [options]: Show key project variables
junit [options] <testclass[:method]...>: Test a project according to an OSGi test
macro [options] <[macro]> <[...]>: Show macro value. Macro can contain the { and } parentheses but it is also ok without. You can use the ':' instead of the ';' in a macro
maven ( 'settings' | 'bundle': Special maven commands
package [options] <<bnd|bndrun>> <[...]>: Package a bnd or bndrun file into a single jar that executes with java -jar <>.jar. The JAR contains all dependencies, including the framework and the launcher. A profile can be specified which will be used to find properties. If a property is not found, a property with the name [<profile>]NAME will be looked up. This allows you to make different profiles for testing and runtime.
plugins [options]: Execute a Project action, or if no parms given, show information about the project
print [options] <[jar-file]...>: Provides detailed view of the bundle. It will analyze the bundle and then show its contents from different perspectives. If no options are specified, prints the manifest.
project [options]: Execute a Project action, or if no parms given, show information about the project
release [options]: Release this project
repo [options] <[sub-cmd]> ...: Access to the repositories. Provides a number of sub commands to manipulate the repository (see repo help) that provide access to the installed repos for the current project.
run [options] <[bndrun]>: Run a project in the OSGi launcher. If not bndrun is specified, the current project is used for the run specification
runtests [options] ...: Run OSGi tests and create report
schema [options] ...: Print out the packages from spec jars and check in which ees they appear. Very specific. For example, schema ee.j2se-1.6.0 ee.j2se-1.5.0 ee.j2ee-1.4.0
select [options] <[jar-path]> <[...]>: Helps finding information in a set of JARs by filtering on manifest data and printing out selected information.
settings [options] <[key][=<[value]>]...>: Set bnd global variables. The key can be wildcarded.
shell [options]: Open a shell on a project, workspace, or plain bnd defaults and exercise commands and macros
source [options] <[jar path]> <[source path]>: Merge a binary jar with its sources. It is possible to specify source path
sync [options]: Execute a Project action, or if no parms given, show information about the project
syntax [options] <header|instruction> ...: Access the internal bnd database of keywords and options
test [options] <testclass[:method]...>: Test a project according to an OSGi test
type [options] ...: List files int a JAR file, equivalent jar command t[vf] (syntax supported)
verify <[jar path]> <[...]>: Verify jars
version [options]: Show version information about bnd
view [options] <[jar-file]>> <[resource]> <[...]>: View a resource from a JAR file. Manifest will be pretty printed and class files are shown disassembled.
wrap [options] <[jar-file]> <[...]>: Wrap a jar into a bundle. This is a poor man's facility to quickly turn a non-OSGi JAR into an OSGi bundle. It is usually better to write a bnd file and use the bnd <file>.bnd command because that has greater control. Even better is to wrap in bndtools.
xref [options] <[jar path]> <[...]>: Show a cross references for all classes in a set of jars.