Disable CLI paging with an option

In  cli user-experience

Overview

The output paging is not desired in some cases e.g. when copy/pasting the full output of a command. The paging could be disabled by a simple option.

Workaround

It is currently possible to override the paging of a single command by redirecting the output to /dev/stdout.

Example of the workaround:

/subsystem=elytron:read-resource-description(recursive=true) > /dev/stdout

Issue Metadata

Issue

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  • CLI

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Requirements

Hard Requirements

  • Ability to disable output paging via CLI argument e.g.:

./jboss-cli.sh --no-paging

  • Ability to disable output paging using jboss-cli.xml

  • The options would disable the output paging for all commands / output

  • Mention the option in the CLI help

Nice-to-Have Requirements

Non-Requirements

Test Plan

Tests should include:

  • Effectiveness of the CLI argument and jboss-cli.xml option to disable the paging

  • Make sure the paging works when any of the options to disable paging is not used