Mahesh Waghmare

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CLI Commands

wp cli info

Helpful for diagnostic purposes, this command shares:

  • OS information.
  • Shell information.
  • PHP binary used.
  • PHP binary version.
  • php.ini configuration file used (which is typically different than web).
  • WP-CLI root dir: where WP-CLI is installed (if non-Phar install).
  • WP-CLI global config: where the global config YAML file is located.
  • WP-CLI project config: where the project config YAML file is located.
  • WP-CLI version: currently installed version.

See config docs for more details on global and project config YAML files.

OPTIONS OPTIONS

[--format=<format>]
Render output in a particular format.
---
default: list
options:
– list
– json
---

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EXAMPLES EXAMPLES

# Display various data about the CLI environment.
$ wp cli info
OS:  Linux 4.10.0-42-generic #46~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 4 15:57:59 UTC 2017 x86_64
Shell:   /usr/bin/zsh
PHP binary:  /usr/bin/php
PHP version: 7.1.12-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
php.ini used:    /etc/php/7.1/cli/php.ini
WP-CLI root dir:    phar://wp-cli.phar
WP-CLI packages dir:    /home/person/.wp-cli/packages/
WP-CLI global config:
WP-CLI project config:
WP-CLI version: 1.5.0

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GLOBAL PARAMETERS GLOBAL PARAMETERS

These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress.

Argument Description
--path=<path> Path to the WordPress files.
--url=<url> Pretend request came from given URL. In multisite, this argument is how the target site is specified.
--ssh=[<scheme>:][<user>@]<host\|container>[:<port>][<path>] Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of “docker”, “docker-compose”, “vagrant”).
--http=<http> Perform operation against a remote WordPress installation over HTTP.
--user=<id\|login\|email> Set the WordPress user.
--skip-plugins[=<plugins>] Skip loading all plugins, or a comma-separated list of plugins. Note: mu-plugins are still loaded.
--skip-themes[=<themes>] Skip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes.
--skip-packages Skip loading all installed packages.
--require=<path> Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once).
--[no-]color Whether to colorize the output.
--debug[=<group>] Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help.
--prompt[=<assoc>] Prompt the user to enter values for all command arguments, or a subset specified as comma-separated values.
--quiet Suppress informational messages.
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