github.com/kikitux/packer@v0.10.1-0.20160322154024-6237df566f9f/website/source/docs/command-line/introduction.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 description: | 3 Packer is controlled using a command-line interface. All interaction with Packer 4 is done via the `packer` tool. Like many other command-line tools, the `packer` 5 tool takes a subcommand to execute, and that subcommand may have additional 6 options as well. Subcommands are executed with `packer SUBCOMMAND`, where 7 "SUBCOMMAND" is the actual command you wish to execute. 8 layout: docs 9 page_title: 'Packer Command-Line' 10 ... 11 12 # Packer Command-Line 13 14 Packer is controlled using a command-line interface. All interaction with Packer 15 is done via the `packer` tool. Like many other command-line tools, the `packer` 16 tool takes a subcommand to execute, and that subcommand may have additional 17 options as well. Subcommands are executed with `packer SUBCOMMAND`, where 18 "SUBCOMMAND" is the actual command you wish to execute. 19 20 If you run `packer` by itself, help will be displayed showing all available 21 subcommands and a brief synopsis of what they do. In addition to this, you can 22 run any `packer` command with the `-h` flag to output more detailed help for a 23 specific subcommand. 24 25 In addition to the documentation available on the command-line, each command is 26 documented on this website. You can find the documentation for a specific 27 subcommand using the navigation to the left.