Command-Line Client
This page is part of the Getting Started Section. BaseX offers a standalone (embedded) console mode from which all database commands can be executed. The article on the Database Server provides a good introduction on how to run commands in the console mode.
Startup
First of all, please launch a standalone version of BaseX: double click on the BaseX icon, or run the basex script. Follow this link for more information (or check out the additional command-line options).
Working with the BaseX Console
After the BaseX Console has been started, the HELP command can be used to
to list all database commands. Several commands can be separated by semicolons.
To evaluate commands without entering the console mode, you can use the
-c option on the command line:
basex -Vc "CREATE DB input input.xml; XQUERY /"
Database 'input' created in 53.64 ms.
<html>
<!-- Header -->
<head id="0">
<title>XML</title>
</head>
<!-- Body -->
<body id="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000CC">
<h1>Databases & XML</h1>
<div align="right">
<b>Assignments</b>
<ul>
<li>Exercise 1</li>
<li>Exercise 2</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
<?pi bogus?>
</html>
Query: /
Compiling:
Result: root()
Parsing: 0.19 ms
Compiling: 9.27 ms
Evaluating: 0.33 ms
Printing: 3.08 ms
Total Time: 12.88 ms
Results: 1 Item
Updated: 0 Items
Printed: 375 Bytes
Memory: 5834 KB
Query executed in 13.25 ms.
All available command-line options can be found here.
