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Command Line Reference for Bower API

cache

$ bower cache <command> [<args>]
Manage bower cache

cache clean

$ bower cache clean
$ bower cache clean <name> [<name> ...]
$ bower cache clean <name>#<version> [<name>#<version> ..]
Cleans cached packages

cache list

$ bower cache list
$ bower cache list <name> [<name> ...]
Lists cached packages

help

$ bower help <command>
Display help inform­ation about Bower

home

$ bower home
$ bower home <package>
$ bower home <package>#<version>
Opens a package homepage into your favorite browser.

init

$ bower init
Intera­ctively create a bower.json file
 

info

$ bower info <package>
$ bower info <package> [<property>]
$ bower info <package>#<version> [<property>]
Displays overall inform­ation of a package or of a particular version.

install

$ bower install [<options>]
$ bower install <endpoint> [<endpoint> ..] [<options>]
Installs the project depend­encies or a specific set of endpoints.

link

$ bower link
$ bower link <name> [<local name>]
The link functi­onality allows developers to easily test their packages.

login

$ bower login
Authen­ticate with GitHub and store creden­tials. Required to unregister packages.

list

$ bower list [<options>]
List local packages and possible updates.

lookup

$ bower lookup <name>
Look up a package URL by name
 

prune

$ bower prune
Uninstalls local extraneous packages

register

$ bower register <name> <url>
Register a package

search

$ bower search
$ bower search <name>
Finds all packages or a specific package.

uninstall

$ bower uninstall <name> [<name> ..] [<options>]
Uninstalls a package locally from your bower_­com­ponents directory

update

$ bower update <name> [<name> ..] [<options>]
Updates installed packages to their newest version according to bower.json

unregister

$ bower unregister <package>
Unregi­sters a package

version

$ bower version [<newversion> | major | minor | patch]
Run this in a package directory to bump the version and write the new data back to the bower.json file
 

Options

 

allow-root

--allow-root
Allows running commands as root.

force

-f, --force
Makes various commands more forceful

json

-j, --json
Output consumable JSON

log-level

-l, --log-level
What level of logs to report

offline

-o, --offline
Do not use network connection

quiet

-q, --quiet
Only output important inform­ation

silent

-s, --silent
Do not output anything, besides errors

verbose

-V, --verbose
Makes output more verbose
 

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