diff --git a/tools/package/bin/onos-ctl b/tools/package/bin/onos-ctl
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+#!/bin/bash
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Starts ONOS Apache Karaf container
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+cd $(dirname $0)/../apache-karaf-*/bin
+./karaf "$@"
+