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general driver for running the command-line commands
Examples (TL;DR)
- Initialize a new .NET project:
dotnet new template_short_name
- Restore nuget packages:
dotnet restore
- Build and execute the .NET project in the current directory:
dotnet run
- Run a packaged dotnet application (only needs the runtime, the rest of the commands require the .NET Core SDK installed):
dotnet path/to/application.dll
Synopsis
dotnet [--version] [--help] [--verbose] < command > [< args >]
Description
dotnet is a generic driver for the CLI toolchain. Invoked on its own, it will give out brief usage instructions.
Each specific feature is implemented as a command. In order to use the feature, it is specified after dotnet, i.e. dotnet compile
. All of the arguments following the command are command's own arguments.
Options
-v, --verbose
Enable verbose output.
--version
Print out the version of the CLI tooling
-h, --help
Print out a short help and a list of current commands.
Dotnet Commands
The following commands exist for dotnet.
dotnet-compile(1)
Compile the application to either an intermidiate language (IL) or to a native binary.
Restores the dependencies for a given application.
Runs the application from source.
Publishes a flat directory that contains the application and its dependencies, including the runtime binaries.
Runs tests using a test runner specified in project.json.
Initializes a sample .NET Core console application.
Examples
dotnew new
Initializes a sample .NET Core console application that can be compiled and ran.
dotnet restore
Restores dependencies for a given application.
dotnet compile
Compiles the application in a given directory.
Environment
DOTNET_PACKAGES
The primary package cache. If not set, defaults to $HOME/.nuget/packages on Unix or %LOCALAPPDATA%\NuGet\Packages (TBD) on Windows.
DOTNET_PACKAGES_CACHE
The secondary cache. This is used by shared hosters (such as Azure) to provide a cache of pre-downloaded common packages on a faster disk. If not set it is not used.
DOTNET_SERVICING
Specifies the location of the servicing index to use by the shared host when loading the runtime.
See Also
dotnet-compile(1), dotnet-run(1), dotnet-publish(1), dotnet-restore(1)
Authors
Zlatko Knezevic zlakne@microsoft.com.
Info
January 2016