options.rst

lfetool Command Manual

lfetool Options

help Option

To display a help message:

$ lfetool help

Optionally, you may also use a flag:

$ lfetool -h

version Option

To get the current installed version of lfetool:

$ lfetool version

Optionally, you may also use a flag:

$ lfetool -v

extract Option

As of version 0.2.3, lfetool runs as a compressed, self-extracting script. This is due to the increasing number files that are embedded in it and is an effort to reduce the download size of the script. The down-side of this is that every time the script is run, it needs to decode a large chunk of base64 text and then gunzip that, which takes more time.

For those who would prefer faster performance of the script, there is an option to extract the compressed, encoded script from the self-extracting wrapper:

$ lfetool extract

Optionally, you may also use a flag:

$ lfetool -x

This will replace the wrapper (containing the compressed script) with an uncompressed version of the script.

As of version 0.2.7, extraction is now done automatically after download.