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cakephp/console
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Build beautiful console applications with CakePHP

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CakePHP Console Library
=======================

[](#cakephp-console-library)

This library provides a framework for building command line applications from a set of commands. It provides abstractions for defining option and argument parsers, and dispatching commands.

installation
============

[](#installation)

You can install it from Composer. In your project:

```
composer require cakephp/console

```

Getting Started
===============

[](#getting-started)

To start, define an entry point script and Application class which defines bootstrap logic, and binds your commands. Lets put our entrypoint script in `bin/tool.php`:

```
#!/usr/bin/php -q