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CLI commands and options summary

This page only summarizes the CLI commands and the options for each command. For details, use the links in this summary to open the help docs page for the command you are using. The help docs pages are the same as the help in the CLI.

Usage

snyk [COMMAND] [SUBCOMMAND] [OPTIONS] [PACKAGE] [CONTEXT-SPECIFIC-OPTIONS]

Description

The Snyk CLI is a build-time tool to find and fix known vulnerabilities in your projects. For a more detailed description of Snyk CLI and Snyk, see Snyk CLI. For an introduction on how to use the Snyk CLI, see Getting started with the CLI.

Available CLI commands

To learn more about each Snyk CLI command, use the --help option, for example, snyk auth --help or snyk container --help. Each command in this list is linked to the corresponding help page in these docs.
Note: Lists of all the options for Snyk CLI commands are on this page. The options are explained in detail in the help for each command.

​snyk auth​

Authenticate Snyk CLI with a Snyk account.

​snyk test​

Test a project for open source vulnerabilities and license issues.
Snapshot and continuously monitor a project for open source vulnerabilities and license issues.
Print a list of the snyk container commands, snyk container monitor and snyk container test.
Capture the container image layers and dependencies and monitor for vulnerabilities on snyk.io​
Test container images for any known vulnerabilities.

​snyk iac​

Print a list of the snyk iac commands: snyk iac describe, snyk iac update-exclude-policy, and snyk iac test.
Generate a mapping artifact that contains the minimum amount of information needed to generate, from Terraform state files, resource mappings from code to Cloud, such as resource IDs and names, and send the mapping artifact to Snyk.
Detect, track, and alert on infrastructure drift and unmanaged resources.
Generate exclude policy rules to be used by snyk iac describe.
Test for any known security issue.
Initialize custom rules project structure, relation, rule, or spec
Run tests for all custom rules
Bundle and upload custom rule bundles to Snyk Cloud API

​snyk code​

Print the name of the snyk code command with its help option: snyk code test
Test for any known security issues using Static Code Analysis.
Find Log4Shell vulnerability.
Manage Snyk CLI configuration.
generates a mapping artifact that contains the minimum amount of information needed to generate, from Terraform state files, resource mappings from code to Cloud, such as resource IDs and names, and sends the mapping artifact to Snyk.Display the .snyk policy for a package.
Modify the .snyk policy to ignore stated issues.

​snyk sbom​

Generate an SBOM for a local software project in an ecosystem supported by Snyk.

New CLI commands

​snyk fix​

Apply the recommended updates for supported ecosystems automatically.

​snyk apps​

Create a Snyk App using the Snyk CLI.

Subcommands of CLI commands

The following is a list of the sub-commands for Snyk CLI commands. Each sub-command is followed by the command(s) to which the sub-command applies. The commands are linked to their help docs. For details concerning each sub-command, see the help docs.
get <KEY>: subcommand of config​
set <KEY>=<VALUE>: subcommand of config​
unset <KEY>: subcommand of config​
clear: subcommand of config​

Configure the Snyk CLI

You can use environment variables to configure the Snyk CLI and also set variables to configure the Snyk CLI to connect with the Snyk API. See Configure the Snyk CLI.

Debug

Use -d option to output the debug logs for any command.

Exit codes for CLI commands

Exit codes for the test commands are all the same. See the exit codes in the following help docs:
Additional CLI commands have exit codes as listed in the following help docs:

Options for multiple commands

Lists of the options for Snyk CLI commands follow. Each option is followed by the command(s) to which the option applies. The commands are linked to their help docs. For details concerning each option, see the help docs.
--all-projects: test, monitor,sbom​
--fail-fast: test, monitor​
--detection-depth=<DEPTH>: test, monitor, iac test, sbom​
--exclude=<NAME>[,<NAME>]...>: test, monitor, sbom​
--prune-repeated-subdependencies, -p: test, monitor, sbom​
--print-deps: test, monitor, container test​
--remote-repo-url=<URL>: test, monitor, iac test​
--dev: test, monitor, sbom​
--file=<FILE>: test, monitor​
--package-manager=<PACKAGE_MANAGER_NAME>: test, monitor​
--unmanaged: test, monitor. See also Options for scanning using --unmanaged and the sbom command help for another use of this option.
--ignore-policy: test, monitor, iac test, iac describe​
--trust-policies test, monitor​
--show-vulnerable-paths=<none|some|all> test​
--project-name=<PROJECT_NAME>: test, monitor, container test, container monitor​
--target-reference=<TARGET_REFERENCE>: test, monitor, iac test​
--policy-path=<PATH_TO_POLICY_FILE>: test, monitor, container test, container monitor, iac test, iac describe, ignore​
--json-file-output=<OUTPUT_FILE_PATH>: test, code test, container test, iac test,sbom​
--sarif-file-output=<OUTPUT_FILE_PATH>: test, code test, container test, iac test​
--severity-threshold=<low|medium|high|critical>: test, code test, container test, iac test​
--fail-on=<all|upgradable|patchable>: container test, test​
--project-environment=<ENVIRONMENT>[,<ENVIRONMENT>]...>: monitor, container monitor, iac test​
--project-lifecycle=<LIFECYCLE>[,<LIFECYCLE>]...>: monitor, container monitor, iac test​
--project-business-criticality=<BUSINESS_CRITICALITY>[,<BUSINESS_CRITICALITY>]...>: monitor, container monitor, iac test​
--project-tags=<TAG>[,<TAG>]...>: monitor, container monitor, iac test​
--tags=<TAG>[,<TAG>]...>: monitor, container monitor​

snyk code test and snyk iac test command option

--report: code test, iac test​

snyk container command options

--file=<FILE_PATH>: container test, container monitor​
--exclude-app-vulns: container test, container monitor​
--nested-jars-depth: container test, container monitor​
--exclude-base-image-vulns: container test, container monitor​
--platform=<PLATFORM>: container test, container monitor​
--username=<CONTAINER_REGISTRY_USERNAME>: container test, container monitor​
--password=<CONTAINER_REGISTRY_PASSWORD>: container test, container monitor​

snyk iac test command options

--scan=<TERRAFORM_PLAN_SCAN_MODE>: iac test​
--target-name=<TARGET_NAME>: iac test​
--rules=<PATH_TO_CUSTOM_RULES_BUNDLE>: iac test​
--var-file=<PATH_TO_VARIABLE_FILE>: iac test​

snyk iac capture command options

--stdin: iac capture​
PATH: iac capture​

snyk iac describe command options

--from=<STATE>[,<STATE>...]: iac describe​
--to=<PROVIDER+TYPE>: iac describe​
--service=<SERVICE>[,<SERVICE]...>: iac describe​
--all: iac describe​
--only-managed or --drift: iac describe​
--only-unmanaged: iac describe​
--quiet: iac describe​
--filter: iac describe​
--html: iac describe​
--html-file-output=<OUTPUTFILEPATH>: iac-describe​
--fetch-tfstate-headers: iac describe​
--tfc-token: iac describe​
--tfc-endpoint: iac describe​
--tf-provider-version: iac describe​
--strict: iac describe​
--deep: iac describe​
--tf-lockfile: iac describe​
--config-dir: iac describe​

snyk iac update-exclude-policy command options

--exclude-changed: iac update-exclude-policy​
--exclude-missing: iac update-exclude-policy​
--exclude-unmanaged: iac update-exclude-policy​

snyk iac rules push command option

--delete: iac rules push​

snyk iac rules test command option

--update-expected: iac rules test​

snyk ignore command options

--id=<ISSUE_ID>: ignore​
--expiry=<EXPIRY>: ignore​
--reason=<REASON>: ignore​
--path=<PATH_TO_RESOURCE>: ignore​

snyk sbom command options

--format=<cyclonedx1.4+json|cyclonedx1.4+xml|spdx2.3+json>: snyk sbom​
[--file=] or [--f=]: snyk sbom​
[--name=<NAME>]: snyk sbom​
[--version=<VERSION>]: snyk sbom​
[<TARGET_DIRECTORY>]: snyk sbom​

Option for Maven projects

--scan-all-unmanaged: test, monitor​

Options for Gradle projects

--sub-project=<NAME>, --gradle-sub-project=<NAME>: test, monitor​
--all-sub-projects: test, monitor​
--configuration-matching=<CONFIGURATION_REGEX>: test, monitor​
--configuration-attributes=<ATTRIBUTE>[,<ATTRIBUTE>]...: test, monitor​
--init-script=<FILE: test, monitor​

Options for .Net and NuGet projects

--file=.sln: test​
--file=packages.config: test​
--assets-project-name: test, monitor​
--packages-folder: test, monitor​
--project-name-prefix=<PREFIX_STRING>: test, monitor​
--project-name-prefix=my-group/: test, monitor​

Options for npm projects

--strict-out-of-sync=true|false: test, monitor​

Options for Yarn projects

--strict-out-of-sync=true|false: test, monitor​
--yarn-workspaces: test, monitor​

Options for CocoaPods projects

--strict-out-of-sync=true|false: test, monitor​

Options for Python projects

--command=<COMMAND>: test, monitor​
--skip-unresolved=true|false: test, monitor​

Options for Go projects

Currently the following options are not supported:
--fail-on=<all|upgradable|patchable>: test​

Options for scanning using --unmanaged

--org=<ORG_ID>: test, monitor​
--json: test, monitor​
--json-file-output=<OUTPUT_FILE_PATH>: test​
--remote-repo-url=<URL>: test​
--severity-threshold=<low|medium|high|critical>: test​
--target-reference=<TARGET_REFERENCE>: test, monitor​
--max-depth: test, monitor​
--print-dep-paths: test, monitor​
--project-name=c-project: monitor​

-- [<CONTEXT-SPECIFIC_OPTIONS>]

These options are used with the snyk test and snyk monitor commands. See the help docs for snyk test and snyk monitor for details.
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