The command-line utility

Magento 2.0 has a command-line utility to help developers manage installation and configuration tasks. The new command-line interface can do the following:

• Install Magento
• Manage the cache
• Manage indexers
• Configure and run cron
• Compile code
• Set the Magento mode
• Set the URN highlighter
• Create dependency reports
• Translate dictionaries and language packages
• Deploy static view files
• Create symlinks to LESS files
• Run unit tests
• Convert layout into XML files
• Generate data for performance testing
• Create CSS from LESS (CSS real-time compilation)

To work with this tool, you will need to open a terminal (Linux, OS X) or command prompt (Windows) and access the <your Magento install dir>/bin directory. Then, enter with the php magento command to see all the available commands of the command-line utility:

Note

Remember to configure the PHP path to the system environment variable to execute the command. For further information, access http://php.net/manual/en/faq.installation.php.

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