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ibmcloud config — Modify or read out values in the IBM Cloud CLI configuration. More information: <https://cloud.ibm.c

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Problem

How to use the ibmcloud config command: Modify or read out values in the IBM Cloud CLI configuration. More information: <https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cli?topic=cli-ibmcloud_cli#ibmcloud_config>.

Solution

ibmcloud config — Modify or read out values in the IBM Cloud CLI configuration. More information: <https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cli?topic=cli-ibmcloud_cli#ibmcloud_config>.

Set HTTP request timeout to 30 seconds:

ibmcloud config --http-timeout 30

Enable trace output for HTTP requests:

ibmcloud config --trace true

Trace HTTP requests to a specific file:

ibmcloud config --trace {{path/to/trace_file}}

Disable color output:

ibmcloud config --color false

Set the locale to a specific language:

ibmcloud config --locale {{zh_Hans}}

Enable automatic SSO one-time passcode acceptance:

ibmcloud config --sso-otp auto

Code Snippets

Set HTTP request timeout to 30 seconds

ibmcloud config --http-timeout 30

Enable trace output for HTTP requests

ibmcloud config --trace true

Trace HTTP requests to a specific file

ibmcloud config --trace {{path/to/trace_file}}

Disable color output

ibmcloud config --color false

Set the locale to a specific language

ibmcloud config --locale {{zh_Hans}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/ibmcloud config

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