Installing the sample plug-in

Before you begin, set up your local environment to install a plug-in.

Overview

This tutorial covers installing and running this bundled Zowe™ CLI plugin as-is (without modification), which will display your current directory contents.

The plug-in adds a command to the CLI that lists the contents of a directory on your computer.

Installing the sample plug-in to Zowe CLI

To begin, cd into your zowe-tutorial folder.

Issue the following commands to install the sample plug-in to Zowe CLI:

zowe plugins install ./zowe-cli-sample-plugin

Viewing the installed plug-in

Issue zowe --help in the command line to return information for the installed zowe-cli-sample command group:

Using the installed plug-in

To use the plug-in functionality, issue: zowe zowe-cli-sample list directory-contents:

Testing the installed plug-in

To run automated tests against the plug-in, cd into your zowe-tutorial/zowe-cli-sample-plugin folder.

Issue the following command:

npm run test

Next steps

You successfully installed a plug-in to Zowe CLI! Next, try the Extending a plug-in tutorial to learn about developing new commands for this plug-in.