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 ...

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