dev

Synopsis

dev [-i] [-c command]

Run an interactive shell or command in a temporary container.

dev -w [-i] [-c command]

Run an interactive shell or command in the live web server container of an Essentials server.

Options

-c

Command. Runs a specified command.

-i

Interactive. This maps standard input to the created process. This is the default if no arguments are given.

-w

Web server container. Connect to the currently live web server container. This works on an Essentials server where a web server container is running or on a web server cluster server.

Description

Run an interactive shell or a specified command in an application container. When not attaching to an existing web container, the environment is established exactly as when starting the web container. Shared entries from the shared file system (/var/www for a core server and /share/www for a web server), are mounted at /var/www in the created container. Changes that are made to the filesystem that are not shared will be lost when the shell exits.

Last modified on July 5, 2026