This is no longer maintained

You can find an up to date list of all Linode API commands at http://www.linode.com/api/

Run linode_bash_api -h for help it will output the following:

Linode Bash API 20110619 options: -h Help -v Verbose -F arg Response format, default json, options wddx or human -k arg API Key to use -f arg File to get API key from, key must be the only string on the first line -c arg The command to run, for a list of commands see http://www.linode.com/api -d arg A quote string containing the data to send in "foo=bar&foo2=bar2" format -i arg Get data from file if - is used get data from stdin If -k or -f are ommited or don't provide an API key then the following loctions are checked: /Users/rowan/.linode_api /etc/linode/api 

Detiails of commands you can run can be found at http://www.linode.com/api/

./linode_bash_api -c linode.list

./linode_bash_api -c linode.disk.list -d "linodeid=<id from first step>"

./linode_bash_api -c linode.disk.update -d "linodeid=<id from second step>&diskid=<id from second step>&label=Label&isreadonly=1" This will set the disk label to "Label" and make the disk read only.

To contirbute to this program please feel free to fork it and submit a pull request or raise an issue. If you feel generous and would like to donate to the project you can send money via paypal to admin{at} rwky{dot} net or flattr me at https://flattr.com/thing/319205/Linode-Bash-API