This project is the seed for CircleCI's new command-line application.
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If you're installing the new circleci
CLI for the first time, run the following command:
curl -fLSs https://circle.ci/cli | bash
By default, the circleci
app will be installed to the /usr/local/bin
directory. If you do not have write permissions to /usr/local/bin
, you may need to run the above command with sudo
. Alternatively, you can install to an alternate location by defining the DESTDIR
environment variable when invoking bash
:
curl -fLSs https://circle.ci/cli | DESTDIR=/opt/bin bash
brew install circleci
sudo snap install circleci
If you installed the old CLI before, and you're on version less than 0.1.6
, you need to run the following commands:
circleci update
circleci switch
This command may require sudo
if your user doesn't have write permissions to the install directory, /usr/local/bin
. Otherwise, you may see the following error:
mv: cannot move 'circleci' to '/usr/local/bin/circleci': Permission denied
The CLI comes with a built in version managment system. You can check if there any updates pending and update if so using the following commands:
circleci update check
circleci update install
After installing the latest version of our CLI, you must run setup to configure the tool.
$ circleci setup
You should be prompted to enter the CircleCI API Token you generated from the Personal API Token tab
✔ CircleCI API Token:
API token has been set.
✔ CircleCI Host: https://circleci.com
CircleCI host has been set.
Setup complete. Your configuration has been saved.
If you are using this tool on circleci.com
. accept the provided default CircleCI Host
.
Server users will have to change the default value to your custom address (i.e. circleci.my-org.com
).
Note: Server does not yet support config processing and orbs, you will only be able to use circleci local execute
(previously circleci build
) for now.
To ensure that the tool is installed, you can use it to validate a build config file.
$ circleci config validate
Config file at .circleci/config.yml is valid
The CLI may also be used without installation by using Docker.
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/data circleci/circleci-cli:alpine config validate /data/.circleci/config.yml --token $TOKEN
Development instructions for the CircleCI CLI can be found in HACKING.md.
Please see the documentation or circleci help
for more.