EdgeDB interactive shell:
edgedb [connection-option...]
It’s also possible to run an EdgeQL script by piping it into the EdgeDB shell. The shell will then run in non-interactive mode and print all the responses into the standard output:
cat myscript.edgeql | edgedb [connection-option...]
edgedb
is a terminal-based front-end to EdgeDB. It allows running
queries and seeing results interactively.
Show help about the command and exit.
Show all available connection options
Print version.
Disable version check.
Specifies the named instance to connect to. The actual connection
parameters are stored in <edgedb_config_dir>/credentials
and are
usually created by edgedb instance create or similar
commands. Run edgedb info
to see the location of
<edgedb_config_dir>
on your machine.
This option overrides host and port.
Specifies the DSN for EdgeDB to connect to.
This option overrides all other options except password.
Path to JSON file containing credentials.
Specifies the host name of the machine on which the server is running.
If hostname begins with a slash (/
), it is used
as the directory where the command looks for the server Unix-domain
socket. Defaults to the value of the EDGEDB_HOST
environment
variable.
Specifies the TCP port or the local Unix-domain socket file extension
on which the server is listening for connections. Defaults to the value
of the EDGEDB_PORT
environment variable or, if not set, to 5656
.
Connect to the database as the user username.
Defaults to the value of the EDGEDB_USER
environment variable, or,
if not set, to the login name of the current OS user.
Specifies the name of the database to connect to. Default to the value
of the EDGEDB_DATABASE
environment variable, or, if not set, to
the calculated value of username.
If --password is specified, force edgedb
to prompt
for a password before connecting to the database. This is usually not
necessary, since edgedb
will prompt for a password automatically
if the server requires it.
Specifying --no-password disables all password prompts.
Use the first line of standard input as the password.
Certificate to match server against.
This might either be full self-signed server certificate or certificate authority (CA) certificate that server certificate is signed with.
Set the TLS security mode.
default
Resolves to strict
if no custom certificate is supplied via
--tls-ca-file, environment variable, etc. Otherwise,
resolves to no_host_verification
.
strict
Verify TLS certificate and hostname.
no_host_verification
This allows using any certificate for any hostname. However, certificate must be present and match the root certificate specified with --tls-ca-file, credentials file, or system root certificates.
insecure
Disable all TLS security measures.
In case EdgeDB connection can’t be established, keep retrying up
to wait_time (e.g. 30s
).
Specifies a timeout period. In case EdgeDB
doesn’t respond for this period the command will fail (or retry if
--wait-until-available is also specified). The
timeout value must be given using time units
(e.g. hr
, min
, sec
, ms
, etc.). The default
value is 10s
.