How to install Adafruit motorshield library in arduino-cli

Question

I need to install this library using the arduino-cli software. I don't know what name to use for the library. Using

arduino-cli lib install <library_name>

I have tried Adafruit_MotorShield, Adafruit_MotorShield_V2, and other random combinations and in all cases it cannot found it. In the library manager of the graphical interface it is this one:

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• Juraj: check the name in library.properties
• user171780: How do I find the properties of a library?
• Juraj: I found it on GitHub over arduinolibraries.info and it is in the library's folder too if you have it installed elsewhere. And the More Info link in IDE Library Manager goes to GitHub too
• user171780: Are you talking about this? Where is the name to use?
• user171780: Thanks, now I found the library.properties file.

Answer 1

As pointed out by Juraj♦ in the comments, the name to use can be found in the library.properties file. There we find name=Adafruit Motor Shield V2 Library so the command to install the library is:

arduino-cli lib install Adafruit\ Motor\ Shield\ V2\ Library

Note the white spaces are escaped.

• Juraj: quotes didn't work?
• user171780: Don't know, I tried at once with that command, which worked.