CLI help
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities and license issues.
For more information, visit the Snyk website https://snyk.io
For details, see the CLI documentation https://docs.snyk.io/snyk-cli
How to get started
1. Authenticate by running snyk auth.
2. Test your local project with snyk test.
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
These commands test and continuously monitor container images for vulnerabilities and generate an
SBOM for a container image.
snyk iac
These commands find and report security issues in Infrastructure as Code files; detect, track,
and alert on unmanaged resources; and create a .driftignore file.
snyk code
The snyk code test command finds security issues using Static Code Analysis.
snyk sbom
Generate or test an SBOM document in ecosystems supported by Snyk.
snyk aibom
Generates an AIBOM for a local software project written in Python, Java, JavaScript, or Go, to
understand what AI models, datasets, tools, and so on are used in that project.
snyk aibom test
Generates an AI-BOM and tests it against your tenant's policies, returning all resulting
issues.
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
https://docs.snyk.io/snyk-cli/configure-the-snyk-cli
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