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Sitecore Command Line Interface reference

Abstract

Command reference for Sitecore Command Line Interface (CLI).

As the name suggests, Sitecore Command Line Interface (CLI) is a command-line tool named sitecore, and you add subcommands and options to accomplish different tasks.

To discover additional options for each of the commands listed in the following table, you add the --help option at the end. For example, dotnet sitecore login --help or dotnet sitecore ser package create --help.

Subcommand	Description
`init`	Initializes a project configuration in the current folder. Note For more information, see Install Sitecore Command Line Interface.
`login`	Logs in to a Sitecore instance. Note For more information, see Log in to a Sitecore instance with Sitecore Command Line Interface.
`publish`	Publishes all content from the Master database to the Web database. Install the publishing plugin to access this command. Note For more information, see The CLI publish command.
`ser, serialization`	Handles the serialization of items. Install the serialization plugin to access this command. Note For more information, see The CLI serialization command.