The PW CLI
Josh McMahan, Olivia Shoup
Software Engineer
Introducing the new Parallel Works CLI
The PW CLI being used to see the status of buckets (video above).
We're excited to announce our new proprietary command-line interface (CLI). The PW CLI lets you interact with your resources without installing a CSP-specific CLI or looking up commands. Currently, we support actions for buckets and Lustre storage, with added commands and functionality coming soon.
Because the CLI is pre-installed and pre-authenticated on user workspaces, cloud clusters, and existing clusters, you can open a terminal on ACTIVATE and use the CLI right away. Enter pw in the terminal to see a list of available commands.
To learn more about the CLI, see this page of our CLI Reference.
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