ARDUINO-CLI(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Arduino Command Line Manual (section 1, she's fancy) 💖 the star of the show is arduino-cli — that's the Arduino CLI, periodt.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

arduino-cli [flags]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. flags go in, magic comes out 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Arduino Command Line Interface (arduino-cli). literally the whole Arduino toolbox but it lives in your terminal instead of a cute little window, and honestly? iconic behavior 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --additional-urls=[] — a comma-separated list of extra URLs for the Boards Manager. default is an empty list, so nothing extra gets pulled in unless you say so.
• --config-dir="" — sets the default data directory, and nglll this is the folder Arduino CLI will go looking in for its configuration file. default is "".
• --config-file="" — the custom config file, if you've got one. don't specify it and the default one gets used instead. default is "".
• -h, --help[=false] — help for arduino-cli. defaults to false, because obviously you don't need help until you do 😭
• --json[=false] — prints the output in JSON format. for when you want your data structured and your life organized. default false.
• --log[=false] — prints the logs on the standard output. default false.
• --log-file="" — the path to the file where logs will be written. default is "".
• --log-format="text" — the output format for the logs, and the options are text or json. default is text.
• --log-level="info" — messages at this level and above get logged. valid levels are: trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal, panic. default is info, so the quiet-ish middle ground 🌈
• --no-color[=false] — disables colored output. sad but sometimes necessary. default false.

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💜 EXAMPLE 💜

okay so here's how you actually run her:

debian/build/bin/arduino-cli <command> [flags...]

command first, flags after. chef's kiss 🤌

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

your little family of related pages, all of them, no skips:

• arduino-cli-board(1)
• arduino-cli-burn-bootloader(1)
• arduino-cli-cache(1)
• arduino-cli-compile(1)
• arduino-cli-completion(1)
• arduino-cli-config(1)
• arduino-cli-core(1)
• arduino-cli-daemon(1)
• arduino-cli-debug(1)
• arduino-cli-lib(1)
• arduino-cli-monitor(1)
• arduino-cli-outdated(1)
• arduino-cli-profile(1)
• arduino-cli-sketch(1)
• arduino-cli-update(1)
• arduino-cli-upgrade(1)
• arduino-cli-upload(1)
• arduino-cli-version(1)

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

15-Aug-2026 Auto generated by spf13/cobra

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 go forth and compile something gorgeous 💖✨

okay closing thoughts: this beauty was Auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Aug 2026, and it lives under the banner of the Arduino Command Line Manual — no cap, she ate 🎀💅👑