---
name: "cmdliner-tool-commands"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ocaml-cmdliner"
version: "2.1.1-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cmdliner-tool-commands"
---

# cmdliner-tool-commands(1)

Output all subcommands of a cmdliner tool

## NAME

cmdliner-tool-commands - Output all subcommands of a cmdliner tool

## SYNOPSIS

**cmdliner tool-commands** \[*OPTION*\]… *TOOLEXEC*

## DESCRIPTION

**cmdliner tool-commands** outputs all the subcommands of a given cmdliner based tool, one per line. Examples:

```
cmdliner tool-commands ./mytool
```

```
cmdliner tool-commands cmdliner
```

## ARGUMENTS

- *TOOLEXEC* (required)

  *TOOLEXEC* is the tool executable. Searched in the **PATH** unless an explicit file path is specified.

## COMMON OPTIONS

- **--help**\[=*FMT*\] (default=**auto**)

  Show this help in format *FMT*. The value *FMT* must be one of **auto**, **pager**, **groff** or **plain**. With **auto**, the format is **pager** or **plain** whenever the **TERM** env var is **dumb** or undefined.

- **--version**

  Show version information.

## EXIT STATUS

**cmdliner tool-commands** exits with:

- 0

  on success.

- 123

  on indiscriminate errors reported on standard error.

- 124

  on command line parsing errors.

- 125

  on unexpected internal errors (bugs).

## SEE ALSO

[cmdliner(1)](/cmdliner/1.md)