BOXCLI --id-only not working

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javarebel

• November 02, 2017 13:34

Getting error when trying to use --id-only option.

 

C:\BoxCLI>box folders list-items 12xxxxx7 --as-user 2xxxxx6 -id-only
Specify --help for a list of available options and commands.
Unrecognized option '-id-only'

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  amgrobelny

  • November 02, 2017 15:16

  Two things to note here:

   

  -id-only won't work because the option has two dashes "--id-only".

   

  Also, currently --id-only isn't supported on that command. If you need that feature, you can file an issue on the Box CLI Github for a feature request (https://github.com/box/boxcli).

   

  As you can see from the screenshot, --id-only is not a listed option for this command:

  

   

  In the meantime, you can parse the JSON from the API with Bash or PowerShell:

  Bash:

  There isn't a built in bash tool that lets you easily parse a JSON string. There are some tools you can download, but I opted just to use Python.

   

  box folders list-items 0 --json | python -c '

  import sys, json

  parsed = json.load(sys.stdin)["entries"]

  for entry in parsed:

    print entry["id"]

  ' >> ids.txt

   

  The spacing and line breaks are important here since it's Python. This writes out a list of the IDs to a .txt file. You can pipe the output to whatever you'd like. I just used creating a file as an example.

   

  PowerShell 

  PowerShell has a built in JSON parser:

   

  $json = box folders list-items 0 --json | ConvertFrom-Json

  echo $json.entries.id

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