4.13.3. Getting Help

You can get general help for the wic command by entering the wic command by itself or by entering the command with a help argument as follows:

     $ wic -h
     $ wic --help
                

Currently, Wic supports seven commands: cp, create, help, list, ls, rm, and write. You can get help for these commands as follows with command being one of the supported commands:

     $ wic help command
                

You can also get detailed help on a number of topics from the help system. The output of wic --help displays a list of available help topics under a "Help topics" heading. You can have the help system display the help text for a given topic by prefacing the topic with wic help:

     $ wic help help_topic
                

You can find out more about the images Wic creates using the existing kickstart files with the following form of the command:

     $ wic list image help
                

For image, you can provide any of the following:

       beaglebone
       mpc8315e-rdb
       genericx86
       edgerouter
       qemux86-directdisk
       directdisk-gpt
       mkefidisk
       directdisk
       systemd-bootdisk
       mkhybridiso
       sdimage-bootpart
       directdisk-multi-rootfs
       directdisk-bootloader-config