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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