Moosh – the Moodle shell

Before you can make use of Moosh, you will have to install it (see Chapter 8, Moodle Plugins). Once it's been installed, you have a vast number of commands (at the time of writing over 80!) at your disposal.

The general syntax of Moosh is as follows:

moosh <command> <options>

To give you an idea of the types of things you can do with Moosh, we will show you a number of examples.

Tasks	Commands	Description
Clear cache	moosh cache-clear	This is the equivalent of purge_caches using CLI
Show all plugin types	moosh info-plugins	Displays a list of all installed plugins and their installation location.
Create a user	moosh user-create test	Create a user with user name test.
Create 10 users	moosh user-create test{1..10}	This type of enumeration can be used with a number of Moosh commands.
Create a user with some optional values	moosh user-create --email [e-mail] --city "Heidelberg" --country DE --firstname...