# Sol - a command line and interactive shell tool for Solid **URL:** \ **Category:** Solid App Development FAQs\ **Created:** [January 6, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/sol-a-command-line-and-interactive-shell-tool-for-solid/1005 "2019-01-06T19:45:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jeffz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/jeffz/32/600_2.png) [@jeffz](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/jeffz)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/sol-a-command-line-and-interactive-shell-tool-for-solid/1005/1 "2019-01-06T19:45:25Z")
I have created solid-shell-client, a console-based version of solid-auth-client supporting login, persistent sessions, and fetch for the console with the same API as solid-auth-client but based on solid-cli. I have also created **[sol](https://github.com/jeff-zucker/solid-shell)**, a command-line and interactive shell illustrating some of the capabilities of the console client. [Edit : new link to the solid-shell release which is sol but separated from its original home inside solid-file-client] From the command line, you can do things like this: ``` sol upload /public/mysite file1 file2 folderX/* ``` To use it in the interactive shell ``` sol shell ``` If sol is found to be useful, I’m thinking it should be more of a group project than solely belonging to me. Lots of things to be done - internationalization, asci-tables, plugin API for including other apps, etc. etc. I would also very much value suggestions on names and locations. It’s all bundled with solid-file-client for now, but sol and solid-shell-client probably deserve distros of their own. ---
**Author:** ![aveltens](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/aveltens/32/3987_2.png) [@aveltens](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aveltens)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/sol-a-command-line-and-interactive-shell-tool-for-solid/1005/2 "2019-01-09T18:54:57Z")
Nice tool, which is indeed useful. One can easily run it with `npx` as well, to try it out without installing, e.g.: `npx solid-file-client read /profile/card` Just one thing: I am not really comfortable with storing my password in a json file. Another option would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![aveltens](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/aveltens/32/3987_2.png) [@aveltens](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aveltens)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/sol-a-command-line-and-interactive-shell-tool-for-solid/1005/3 "2019-01-09T18:57:29Z")
> [@aveltens](#): > > I am not really comfortable with storing my password in a json file. Another option would be nice. You could for example have a `sol login` command which queries the credentials from the user and then just stores the token to a file, but not the password. ---
**Author:** ![jeffz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/jeffz/32/600_2.png) [@jeffz](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/jeffz)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/sol-a-command-line-and-interactive-shell-tool-for-solid/1005/4 "2019-01-09T19:08:52Z")
Good ideas, thanks! I am in the process of moving sol to its own repo and disentangling it from solid-file-client. And thanks for reminding me about the npx thing. I specifically put sol in as both bin and script in the package.json so it could work with npx but then forgot to document that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jeffz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/jeffz/32/600_2.png) [@jeffz](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/jeffz)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/sol-a-command-line-and-interactive-shell-tool-for-solid/1005/5 "2019-01-14T19:37:26Z")
I’ve implemented your suggestion - if no password is specified, sol will prompt you for one and hide your typing with asterisks to block people from reading over your shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![jeffz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/jeffz/32/600_2.png) [@jeffz](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/jeffz)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/sol-a-command-line-and-interactive-shell-tool-for-solid/1005/6 "2019-01-14T19:40:16Z")
@aveltens yes, thanks, the npx trick is now documented in the README. And the command is ```auto npx sol read /profile/card ``` ---
**Author:** ![rodant](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/rodant/32/1980_2.png) [@rodant](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/rodant)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/sol-a-command-line-and-interactive-shell-tool-for-solid/1005/7 "2019-02-18T16:28:28Z")
Hello, I just wanted to try out the shell tool and I installed it globally. I did `npm install -g sol` and I got as response, ``` + sol@0.3.0 updated 1 package in 0.368s. ``` But when I call sol, or npx sol it is not found. I’m using node 11.6.0 over nvm. I already installed separately the solid-auth.client and also solid-file-client. Finally I tried installing locally with similar results, the sol shell script is somehow missing. Do you have any hints? ---
**Author:** ![jeffz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/jeffz/32/600_2.png) [@jeffz](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/jeffz)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/sol-a-command-line-and-interactive-shell-tool-for-solid/1005/8 "2019-02-18T16:42:14Z")
Sorry for the confusion soll is the name of the command but to install it’s npm install solid - shell ---
**Author:** ![rodant](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/rodant/32/1980_2.png) [@rodant](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/rodant)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/sol-a-command-line-and-interactive-shell-tool-for-solid/1005/9 "2019-02-18T16:56:25Z")
Thanks, now I have it. Maybe the doc should be updated.