Using the mittwald CLI non-interactively

If you intend to use mw non-interactively (for example in scripts, or CI/CD pipelines), many commands support a --output|-o flag that allows you to specify the output format. The default is text, which is a human-readable format, but you can also use json to get machine-readable output, which you can then easily process using tools like jq:

PROJECT_ID=$(mw project get -ojson | jq -r '.id')

Many mutating commands also print progress information about long-running operations. To suppress this output, you can use the --quiet|-q flag. In these cases, most commands will fall back to printing the ID of the created resource, which you can then use to retrieve the full resource information:

PROJECT_ID=$(mw project create --quiet --description="...")