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/usr/bin/cedar

Core implementation of the Cedar language

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CLI interface for the Cedar Policy language.

Usage: cedar [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  authorize            Evaluate an authorization request
  evaluate             Evaluate a Cedar expression
  validate             Validate a policy set against a schema
  check-parse          Check that policies, expressions, schema, and/or entities successfully parse. (All arguments are optional; this checks that whatever is provided parses)
  link                 Link a template
  format               Format a policy set
  translate-policy     Translate Cedar policy syntax to JSON policy syntax (except comments)
  translate-schema     Translate Cedar schema syntax to JSON schema syntax and vice versa (except comments)
  visualize            Visualize a set of JSON entities to the graphviz format. Warning: Entity visualization is best-effort and not well tested
  new                  Create a Cedar project
  partially-authorize  Partially evaluate an authorization request
  tpe                  Partially evaluate an authorization request in a type-aware manner
  run-tests            Run test cases on a policy set
  symcc                Symbolic analysis of Cedar policies using SymCC
  language-version     Print Cedar language version
  help                 Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -f, --error-format <ERR_FMT>
          The output format to use for error reporting

          Possible values:
          - human: Human-readable error messages with terminal graphics and inline code snippets
          - plain: Plain-text error messages without fancy graphics or colors, suitable for screen readers
          - json:  Machine-readable JSON output

          [env: CEDAR_ERROR_FORMAT=]
          [default: human]

  -h, --help
          Print help (see a summary with '-h')

  -V, --version
          Print version
Options (3)
OptionDescriptionSource
-f, --error-format ERR_FMTThe output format to use for error reportinghelp
-h, --helpPrint help (see a summary with '-h')help
-V, --versionPrint versionhelp

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