github.com/aspring/packer@v0.8.1-0.20150629211158-9db281ac0f89/website/source/docs/command-line/introduction.html.markdown (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "docs" 3 page_title: "Packer Command-Line" 4 description: |- 5 Packer is controlled using a command-line interface. All interaction with Packer is done via the `packer` tool. Like many other command-line tools, the `packer` tool takes a subcommand to execute, and that subcommand may have additional options as well. Subcommands are executed with `packer SUBCOMMAND`, where "SUBCOMMAND" is obviously the actual command you wish to execute. 6 --- 7 8 # Packer Command-Line 9 10 Packer is controlled using a command-line interface. All interaction with 11 Packer is done via the `packer` tool. Like many other command-line tools, 12 the `packer` tool takes a subcommand to execute, and that subcommand may 13 have additional options as well. Subcommands are executed with 14 `packer SUBCOMMAND`, where "SUBCOMMAND" is obviously the actual command you wish 15 to execute. 16 17 If you run `packer` by itself, help will be displayed showing all available 18 subcommands and a brief synopsis of what they do. In addition to this, you can 19 run any `packer` command with the `-h` flag to output more detailed help for 20 a specific subcommand. 21 22 In addition to the documentation available on the command-line, each command 23 is documented on this website. You can find the documentation for a specific 24 subcommand using the navigation to the left.