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+Cone command line interface
+===========================
+
+ConE command line interface is desinged to offer different actions. A action can be anything that utilizes the ConE interface and 
+somehow interacts with a Configuration Project. Each action has it's own set of command line arguments.
+
+Calling ConE
+------------
+
+All ConE commands are wrapped up by the cone.cmd, which executes internally cone_tool.py. The cone_tool.py searches for all conesub_*.py 
+matching files under the same scripts folder under cone installation. So basically adding a new action is just adding a new conesub_*.py file.
+
+To get a list of all available cone commands run::
+
+    cone -h
+    
+or::
+
+    cone --help
+  
+And you will get something like this as output::
+
+    Usage: cone_tool.py [action] [options].
+    
+    Available actions
+        info
+        compare
+        merge
+        export
+        generate
+        update
+    
+    Use cone_tool.py [action] -h to get action specific help.
+    
+    Options:
+      --version                         show program's version number and exit
+      -h, --help                        show this help message and exit 
+      -c CONFIG, --configuration=CONFIG  Define the name of the configuration for the action
+      -v LEVEL, --verbose=LEVEL          Print error, warning and information on system out. 
+                                            Possible choices:
+                                                NONE 0
+                                                CRITICAL 1 
+                                                ERROR 2 
+                                                WARNING 3 
+                                                INFO 4 
+                                                DEBUG 5 
+                                            Default is 3.
+      -p STORAGE, --project=STORAGE      Defines the location of current project. Default is the current working directory.
+
+
+ConE actions
+------------
+.. toctree::
+    :maxdepth: 2
+
+    info
+    compare
+    merge
+    export
+    generate
+    update
+    report
+