Command line usage

On this page you will find the documentation of the usage of the rosswitch command line application.

Available terminal commands

The application provide several basic commands for managing the profiles:

rosswitch load <profile name> or rosswitch <profile name>
Load a profile. The profile name can be either the name of the configuration file, or the name with underscore replaced by spaces. It will first check if there's a current preset loaded and will unload it before hand.
E.g. a profile file named custom_profile.rosprofile can be loaded by calling either rosswitch load custom_profile or rosswitch load "Custom Profile".
rosswitch gen <profile name>
Force a (re-)generation of the load and unload script, for example if you changed it.
rosswitch unload
Unload the current profile and clear the paths.

Aliases

To make it easier, several aliases are defined to the rosswitch command:

You can of course define your own aliases to make it easier for you by putting the following line in your .bashrc (or .zshrc):

alias <your alias here>=rosswitch

There is also a command tools to access several tools (mainly for debug purpose):

rosswitch tools colors
Display all the available color scheme that can be used for the preset name display in the terminal. Check the YAML Reference for the list of all available colors.

Other aliases are defined to ease ROS development. They are setup in the setup.sh file that you source in your .bashrc (.zshrc).