Appium CLI — To Start Appium server by Command line & List of arguments used for information retrieval(complete details)

By running command — appium or appium server

Please go through the below video for complete details:

Summary:

To start the Appium server:

By running command

appium or appium server

Note: Here ’server’ subcommand is considered as , so if user don’t use it(i.e. don’t type it), Appium will automatically interpret this as a user to run the Appium server.

List of arguments used for information retrieval:

Topic-1:

Step By Step details:

Method-1: Start Appium Server with Command

appium

Note: Here ’server’ subcommand is considered as , so if user don’t use it(i.e. don’t type it), Appium will automatically interpret this as a user to run the Appium server.

Example:

Method-2: Start Appium Server with Command

appium server

Example:

Observe that both commands serve same purpose.

Topic-2:

Let’s discuss — List of arguments used for information retrieval:

Argument-1: “ — — version”

Description : To print the Appium Server Version

Command:

— — version

Alias

-v

Example:

Output: Appium server version “2.12.1”

Argument-2: “ — — help”

Description : To Print instructions on using the Appium command-line. This argument can also be used for any Appium subcommands.

Command:

— — help

Alias

— h

Example:

Argument-3:” — — show-build-info”

Description : To Print detailed information on the Appium server version

Command:

— — show-build-info

Example:

Output: will display version no,git-sha & built details

Argument-4:” — — show-config”

Description : To Print the current Appium server configuration details

Command:

— — show-config

Example:

Output: will display Appium Configuration information

Argument-5: “— show-debug-info”

Description : To Print information on the current environment: details about the operating system, Node.js, and Appium itself

Command:

— show-debug-info

Example:

Output: will display complete details regarding operating system, Node.js, and Appium itself

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