Use the cec Command-Line Utility

The Oracle Content Toolkit comes with a cross-platform cec command-line utility, which allows you to execute commands for many aspects of Oracle Content Management.

Before you use the cec command-line utility, you must create a local source folder in a different location from where you installed the Oracle Content Management Toolkit. This source folder is where all of your local work will be stored, and where you will run cec commands. The source folder can be named anything you want, but for most examples in this guide, the source folder is named cec. For example:

mkdir cec
cd cec
cec install

For a complete list of all cec commands, along with descriptions and examples, see Oracle Content Toolkit Command-Line Utility in the Oracle Help Center.

Alternatively, you can also open a terminal window, go to your source directory, and type cec to see a list of all commands or cec <command> -h to see help for specific commands.

Note:

When using a private instance the Oracle Content Toolkit must be installed and updated from a location with open access to the internet as various required dependencies need to be downloaded from domains outside of Oracle Content Management. After the Oracle Content Toolkit has been installed or updated you can run it from a private instance.