How to setup the CLI interface and beast-shell - Maven project #ucrbeast #beast

Question

how do I execute the instructions below?

"CLI: To setup the CLI interface and beast-shell, extract the binary package in .tar.gz format. Run $BEAST/bin/beast to launch the command line interface."

then I need to run the command line to create a Maven project.

Dev: To create a new Java/Scala project for Beast using the following command.

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.example.beastExample -DartifactId=beast-project \
    -DarchetypeGroupId=edu.ucr.cs.bdlab -DarchetypeArtifactId=beast-spark -DarchetypeVersion=0.9.5-RC2

I already ran the first line of the command in cmd but something is missing. does the entire command only work if executing the first part of the statement first?

Answer 1

If you are trying to launch beast-shell by entering "beast" , it is likely that you haven't added it to your PATH variable.

Once you have added beast's bin directory to PATH variable, you would be able launch beast-shell via terminal.

for example, assume that i have the beast project in my HOME dir, then I would run the following:-

~ % export PATH=$HOME/beast-0.9.5-RC2/bin:$PATH
~ % beast

Hope that helps!