Command-Line Overview

Appium provides a command-line executable (appium), which will likely be your main way of interacting with the Appium server. This section of the Appium documentation describes how to use this executable.

To start off, you can run appium -v or appium --version to return the installed version, or run appium -h or appium --help to return the help message.

The main appium executable provides 3 subcommands:

1. appium server (or simply appium) - launch an Appium server
   • See here for accepted arguments
   • For advanced features, see here for accepted environment variables
2. appium driver - manage Appium drivers
   • See here for accepted arguments
3. appium plugin - manage Appium plugins
   • See here for accepted arguments

Like the main command, you can also run each subcommand with the -h or --help flag to learn more about it.