bigchaindb/docs/source/bigchaindb-cli.md

The BigchainDB Command Line Interfaces (CLIs)

BigchainDB has some Command Line Interfaces (CLIs). One of them is the bigchaindb command which we already saw when we first started BigchainDB using:

$ bigchaindb configure
$ bigchaindb start

When you run bigchaindb configure, it creates a default configuration file in $HOME/.bigchaindb. You can check that configuration using:

$ bigchaindb show-config

To find out what else you can do with the bigchain command, use:

$ bigchaindb -h

There's another command named bigchaindb-benchmark. It's used to run benchmarking tests. You can learn more about it using:

$ bigchaindb-benchmark -h
$ bigchaindb-benchmark load -h

Note that you can always start bigchaindb using a different config file using the -c option. For more information check the help with bigchaindb -h.