rclone/docs/content/commands/rclone_rc.md

date	title	slug	url
2020-02-01T10:26:53Z	rclone rc	rclone_rc	/commands/rclone_rc/

rclone rc

Run a command against a running rclone.

Synopsis

This runs a command against a running rclone. Use the --url flag to specify an non default URL to connect on. This can be either a ":port" which is taken to mean "http://localhost:port" or a "host:port" which is taken to mean "http://host:port"

A username and password can be passed in with --user and --pass.

Note that --rc-addr, --rc-user, --rc-pass will be read also for --url, --user, --pass.

Arguments should be passed in as parameter=value.

The result will be returned as a JSON object by default.

The --json parameter can be used to pass in a JSON blob as an input instead of key=value arguments. This is the only way of passing in more complicated values.

Use --loopback to connect to the rclone instance running "rclone rc". This is very useful for testing commands without having to run an rclone rc server, eg:

rclone rc --loopback operations/about fs=/

Use "rclone rc" to see a list of all possible commands.

rclone rc commands parameter [flags]

Options

  -h, --help          help for rc
      --json string   Input JSON - use instead of key=value args.
      --loopback      If set connect to this rclone instance not via HTTP.
      --no-output     If set don't output the JSON result.
      --pass string   Password to use to connect to rclone remote control.
      --url string    URL to connect to rclone remote control. (default "http://localhost:5572/")
      --user string   Username to use to rclone remote control.

See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

SEE ALSO

• rclone - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.