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title: "How to Create Custom Command in Console CLI in Magento 2"
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# How to Create Custom Command in Console CLI in Magento 2

_Published: October 6, 2021_  
_Author: Jigar Patel_  

![](https://dolphinwebsolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/How-to-Create-Custom-Command-in-Console-CLI-in-Magento-2-1024x536.png)

**How to Create Custom Command in Console CLI** in Magento 2.

Magento 2, it is being provided default and you create your own custom console CLI command to manage actions, indexes, modules, etc. **The new interface performs multiple tasks, including:**

- Installing Commerce (and related tasks such as creating or updating the database schema, creating the deployment configuration, and so on).
- Clearing the cache.
- Managing indexes, including reindexing.
- Creating translation dictionaries and translation packages.
- Generating non-existent classes such as factories and interceptors for plug-ins, generating the dependency injection configuration for the object manager.
- Deploying static view files.
- Creating CSS from Less.

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Custom console command in cli .Taken **Dolphin** as Package name and **CustomCli** as Modulename for simplicity. code snippets are under a module named **Dolphin\_CustomCli**.

Before creating the customer tab, we need to create a new module We already have a blog on “[how to create a basic module in Magento 2](https://dolphinwebsolution.com/how-to-create-module-in-magento-2)“. We need to create **module.xml** and **registration.php** file. You can create **module.xml** and **registration.php** from this tutorial.

### Step:1 Define Command in di.xml
File: app/code/Dolphin/CustomCli/etc/di.xml
you need to use Magento\\Framework\\Console\\CommandList to define your command option.

```
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <type name="Magento\Framework\Console\CommandList">
        <arguments>
            <argument name="commands" xsi:type="array">
                <item name="Hellocustom" xsi:type="object">Dolphin\CustomCli\Console\Command\Hellocustom</item>
            </argument>
        </arguments>
    </type>
</config>
```

This di.xml declare a command class **Hellocustom** (Dolphin\\CustomCli\\Console\\Command\\Hellocustom). This class defines the command **name** and **execute()** method.

### Step:2 Command Class Hellocustom.php
File: app/code/Dolphin/CustomCli/Console/Command/Hellocustom.php

```
<?php
namespace Dolphin\CustomCli\Console\Command;

use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;

class Hellocustom extends Command
{

    const NAME_ARGUMENT = "name";
    const NAME_OPTION = "option";

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    protected function execute(
        InputInterface  $input,
        OutputInterface $output
    )
    {
        $name = $input->getArgument(self::NAME_ARGUMENT);
        $option = $input->getOption(self::NAME_OPTION);
        $output->writeln("Hello " . $name);
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    protected function configure()
    {
        $this->setName("dolphin_customcli:hellocustom");
        $this->setDescription("custom cli command");
        $this->setDefinition([
            new InputArgument(self::NAME_ARGUMENT, InputArgument::OPTIONAL, "Name"),
            new InputOption(self::NAME_OPTION, "-a", InputOption::VALUE_NONE, "Option functionality")
        ]);
        parent::configure();
    }
}
```

- **configure()** method is used to set the name, description, command line arguments of the magento 2 add command line
- **execute()** method will run when we call this command line via console.

Next, we need to check your new command is show in command list.

Magento 2 Below CLI command to see the list of all available Magento 2 commands.

\[dt\_highlight color=”” text\_color=”” bg\_color=””\]**php bin/magento list**\[/dt\_highlight\]

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Now you can run \[dt\_highlight color=”” text\_color=”” bg\_color=””\]**php bin/magento dolphin\_customcli:hellocustom**\[/dt\_highlight\] from the command to see the result:

![AI Integration in Magento: Benefits, Use Cases and Business Impact](https://dolphinwebsolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cli-command2-1024x58.png)

The CLI command by \[dt\_highlight color=”” text\_color=”” bg\_color=””\]**php bin/magento dolphin\_customcli:hellocustom -a ‘jigar’**\[/dt\_highlight\] and it will show “**Hello jigar”** as an output.

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I hope this instruction will be helpful for you.

If you have any difficulties regarding this blog, do consider them posting in the Comments section below!

**Thank you!**


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