COUCH-CLI

couch-cli is a helper script to simplify manipulation of a CouchDB database database through the command line.

Configuring the script

• Ensure that CouchDB is not in the admin party, i.e. make sure admin name and password have been set. Then, put those values in the config.sh file. You can set the database host and port too. If you don't set them, the default used is localhost:5984.

  username=foo
  password=bar
  dbhost=localhost
  dbport=5984
  

Usage

First, you need to ensure that CouchDB is running and is listening on the given host and port (localhost:5984 if you haven't specified anything).

Databases

• List all databases

  ./couch-cli.sh db list

• List all documents of a database

  ./couch-cli.sh db docs <name>

• Create a database:

  ./couch-cli.sh db create <name>

• Delete a database

  ./couch-cli.sh db delete <name>

Users

• List all users

  ./couch-cli.sh user list

• Create a user with given username and password

  ./couch-cli.sh user create <username> <password>

• Remove the user with the given username

  ./couch-cli.sh user delete <username>