A full list of CLI commands and usage information can be found in the
GitHub repository.
Only Service Accounts and Admins are able to use some commands.
If your user is not authorized with the necessary scopes or you
configured your CLI to obtain a default token for another user, calls may
fail. Add -v or --verbose to your command for verbose error logging.
Use repository documentation in conjunction with reference documentation to
see information the help command does not provide. This includes
restrictions, token permission requirements, fields, etc.
First: Reset browser storage
Now that you’ve imported the Box API credentials into the CLI you should take a
moment to remove these credentials from your browser’s storage.
Removing your API credentials from the browser storage ensures that no other
script can read your Client ID or Client Secret
Creating a folder with help
Every CLI command begins with box. Add the option --help to any
command for help building it. For example, executing box --help will bring you
to a list of all possible object commands. Options are discussed more in
step 4.
Then, for example, use the folder object and execute the command
box folders --help. This provides a list of all eligible actions for this
object.
Discover the required arguments for creating a folder: box folders:create --help
Execute the command box folders:create 0 "My CLI Folder" and note the folder
ID returned in the response.
The root level of the folder tree, the All Files page, is always represented
by folder ID 0.
If you set up the Box CLI using JWT authentication, you will not see the
folder in your Box account. The folder will live in the service account
of the application that was created after application approval.
Summary
- You used the help feature to create a folder
