The CLI comes with a few commands that can be used to generate your application scaffold, as well as manage the configuration and default values.

Commands

The following commands are used by passing them to the cli binary as arguments. e.g. cligen new or cligen help configure.

CommandDescription
help, hDisplays the help page for cligen. If called with a command (e.g. new), it will display the help text for that particular command
newStarts the scaffold generator wizard in the current directory to generate a new cli application
configureStarts the configuration wizard to step through setting up or updating an existing configuration file

Global options

The following options are globally available to all commands.

OptionDescription
-h, –helpDisplays the help page for cligen, call it on a specific command to display the help for that command
-v, –versionDisplay the version of the local binary