Commandline is the equivalent of Talend Studio without GUI.

To launch it, simply execute the commandline.bat file under Windows or the commandline.sh file under Linux, available from the root of your Commandline folder.

Commandline has three operating modes: Shell, Server, and Script.

Create the file allowing you to launch the commandline in Standalone mode:

• Copy and paste the Commandline.bat file into your working directory
• Rename it StandaloneCommandline.bat
• Open this file and replace “startserver –p8002” with another command. For example, Type in the “help” command
• Run the StandaloneCommandline.bat file. The help will display.

Standalone mode allows you to launch a single command via the commandline application.

If the commandline executable isn't stored at the root of your Commandline: type in the syntax shown in the screenshot in the StandaloneCommandline.bat file.

• Set the TISDirectory variable that defines the path to the directory in which your commandline is stored.

If you are using the Commandline script mode and store the scripts in a separate folder, you can use the ScriptFile variable as in the screenshot.

• Set the ScriptFile variable that defines the path to the directory in which you stored your commandline scripts.

Save and close the file, and run it.

The Commandline opens and the help displays.

Create the file allowing you to launch the commandline in Shell mode:

• Copy and paste the StandaloneCommandline.bat file into your working directory
• Rename it ShellCommandline.bat
  
• Open the renamed file and replace “help” with “shell”
• Execute ShellCommandline.bat

Save and close the file, and run it.

This will allow you to access the commandline application in shell mode, which enables you to enter commands sequentially. If you enter the help command, you can access the help as shown above.

In this screenshot, we connected to a project of Talend Administration Center and listed the jobs of this project.

Create the file allowing you to launch the commandline in Server mode:

• Find out the commandline port set at installation (by default 8002)
• Copy and paste StandaloneCommandline.bat file into your working directory.
• Rename it ServerCommandline.bat
• Open the renamed file and replace the character string "help" with "startServer  -p  8002", where 8002 is the port on which your commandline application listens.
• Execute ServerCommandline.bat

You can remotely connect to a commandline in Server mode.

To do so, check the Commandline has been launched and type in the following command in a regular commandline window:
                         telnet  localhost  8002

Replace localhost by the IP address of the Talend Integration Suite server.
Replace 8002 by the port of the Talend Integration Suite server.

A new commandline windows pops up in which you can type in your commands, for example: the help command.