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Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities and license issues.
For more information visit the Snyk website​
For details see the CLI documentation​

How to get started

  1. 1.
    Authenticate by running snyk auth
  2. 2.
    Test your local project with snyk test
  3. 3.
    Get alerted for new vulnerabilities with snyk monitor

Available commands

To learn more about each Snyk CLI command, use the --help option, for example, snyk auth --help.
Note: The help on the docs site is the same as the --help in the CLI.

​snyk auth​

Authenticate Snyk CLI with a Snyk account.

​snyk test​

Test a project for open source vulnerabilities and license issues.
Note: Use snyk test --unmanaged to scan all files for known open source dependencies (C/C++ only).

​snyk monitor​

Snapshot and continuously monitor a project for open source vulnerabilities and license issues.

​snyk container​

Test container images for vulnerabilities.

​snyk iac​

Commands to find and manage security issues in Infrastructure as Code files.

​snyk code​

Find security issues using static code analysis.

​snyk log4shell​

Find Log4Shell vulnerability.

​snyk config​

Manage Snyk CLI configuration.

​snyk policy​

Display the .snyk policy for a package.

​snyk ignore​

Modify the .snyk policy to ignore stated issues.

Debug

Use -d option to output the debug logs.

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​
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