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ELEKTROID-CLI(1) General Commands Manual ELEKTROID-CLI(1)

NAME

elektroid-cli - transfer CLI application for Elektron devices

SYNOPSIS

elektroid-cli [options] command

DESCRIPTION

elektroid-cli provides the same funcionality than elektroid. See man elektroid for the GUI application.

Provided paths must always be prepended with the device id and a colon (':'), e.g. 0:/samples. Paths pointing to a data, sound or project file use the index of a file instead of its name.

DEVICE COMMANDS

[ ld | list-devices ]
List compatible devices
[ df | info-storage ] device_number
Show size and use of +Drive and RAM where available
Show device info
Upgrade the device

FILESYSTEM COMMANDS

Filesystem commands must be followed by a hyphen ('-') and a filesystem name. The available filesystemas are sample, sound, project, data, preset and raw. Data is an unpackaged form of sound and project and so is raw with regards to preset.

[ ls | list ] device_number:path_to_directory
List directory contents
Create a directory and its parent directories as needed
[ rmdir | rm ] device_number:path_to_directory
Delete a directory recursively
[ ul | upload ] file device_number:path_to_file_or_directory
Upload a file. If the path does not exist it will be created. For the sample filesystem, the supported audio file formats are aiff, flac, ogg and wav.
[ dl | download ] device_number:path_to_file_or_directory
Download a file into the current directory. For the sample filesystem, samples will be stored locally as 16-bit, 48kHz wav files.
Move a file. If the destination path does not exist, it will be created.
Delete a file
Clear file
Copy a file
Swap files

OPTIONS

Show verbose output. Use it more than once for more verbosity.

EXAMPLES

Upload a sample.

Download a preset into the current directory.

List projects.

SEE ALSO

The GitHub page provides some examples: <https://github.com/dagargo/elektroid>

AUTHOR

elektroid-cli was written by David García Goñi <dagargo@gmail.com>.

This manual page was written by Dennis Braun <d_braun@kabelmail.de> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Dec 2021