Installation

To begin, you need to install and configure the CLI for use.

Basic usage

To view a list of all Compute Instances on your account, run the following command:

linode-cli linodes list

The information shown is based on the information within your own account.

┌──────────┬────────────────────┬────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────────────┬─────────┬───────────────────┐
│ id       │ label              │ region     │ type          │ image                 │ status  │ ipv4              │
├──────────┼────────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────┤
│ 00000001 │ example-instance   │ us-east    │ g6-standard-1 │ linode/ubuntu18.04    │ running │ 192.0.2.42         │
│ 00001111 │ centos-us-east     │ us-east    │ g6-nanode-1   │ linode/centos-stream9 │ running │ 192.0.2.108       │
└──────────┴────────────────────┴────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────────────┴─────────┴───────────────────┘

See Using the Linode CLI for additional usage details and examples.

Help

View information about any part of the CLI, including available actions and required parameters, with the --help flag:

linode-cli --help
linode-cli linodes --help
linode-cli linodes create --help

Output

To make information easy to ready, the Linode CLI outputs responses in a text-based table format. The data is split into rows and columns, with the top row containing the fields.

linode-cli regions list

┌──────────────┬─────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────┐
│ id           │ country │ capabilities                                                                                                                                            │ status │
├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│ ap-west      │ in      │ Linodes, NodeBalancers, Block Storage, GPU Linodes, Kubernetes, Cloud Firewalls, VLANs, Block Storage Migrations, Managed Databases                      │ ok     │
│ ca-central   │ ca      │ Linodes, NodeBalancers, Block Storage, Kubernetes, Cloud Firewalls, VLANs, Block Storage Migrations, Managed Databases                                   │ ok     │
│ ap-southeast │ au      │ Linodes, NodeBalancers, Block Storage, Kubernetes, Cloud Firewalls, VLANs, Block Storage Migrations, Managed Databases                                   │ ok     │
│ us-central   │ us      │ Linodes, NodeBalancers, Block Storage, Kubernetes, Cloud Firewalls, Block Storage Migrations, Managed Databases                                          │ ok     │
│ us-west      │ us      │ Linodes, NodeBalancers, Block Storage, Kubernetes, Cloud Firewalls, Block Storage Migrations, Managed Databases                                          │ ok     │
│ us-southeast │ us      │ Linodes, NodeBalancers, Block Storage, Object Storage, GPU Linodes, Kubernetes, Cloud Firewalls, VLANs, Block Storage Migrations, Managed Databases      │ ok     │
│ us-east      │ us      │ Linodes, NodeBalancers, Block Storage, Object Storage, GPU Linodes, Kubernetes, Cloud Firewalls, Bare Metal, Block Storage Migrations, Managed Databases │ ok     │
│ eu-west      │ uk      │ Linodes, NodeBalancers, Block Storage, Kubernetes, Cloud Firewalls, Block Storage Migrations, Managed Databases                                          │ ok     │
│ ap-south     │ sg      │ Linodes, NodeBalancers, Block Storage, Object Storage, GPU Linodes, Kubernetes, Cloud Firewalls, Block Storage Migrations, Managed Databases             │ ok     │
│ eu-central   │ de      │ Linodes, NodeBalancers, Block Storage, Object Storage, GPU Linodes, Kubernetes, Cloud Firewalls, Block Storage Migrations, Managed Databases             │ ok     │
│ ap-northeast │ jp      │ Linodes, NodeBalancers, Block Storage, Kubernetes, Cloud Firewalls, Block Storage Migrations, Managed Databases                                          │ ok     │
└──────────────┴─────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────┘

Fields

By default, most Linode CLI responses do not contain all the available fields. To keep the information digestible, the Linode CLI outputs a smaller subset of all of available fields. This behavior can be adjusted using the commands below.

Limited (default behavior): Outputs a limited subset of the available fields.
All fields (--all): Output all available fields.
Specific fields (--format 'field1,field2'): Outputs only the fields specified within the given comma separated list.

Output format

The Linode CLI can output data in a variety of formats, as disclosed below:

Tabular (default): Data is split into rows and columns, with the top row containing the fields.
JSON (--json or --json --pretty): Data is structured using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), typically used for importing into applications that require JSON. The --pretty tag is optional and makes the output more human readable.
Plain text (--text or --text --delimiter ","): Data is outputted as plain text. By default, it uses a tab character as the delimiter, though this can be adjusted by specifying a custom character using the --delimited "," option.