---
name: "q4wine-cli"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "q4wine"
version: "1.3.13-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/q4wine-cli"
---

# q4wine-cli(1)

console utility for wine applications and prefixes management.

## NAME

q4wine-cli - console utility for wine applications and prefixes management.

## SYNOPSIS

**q4wine-cli** \[**KEY**\] ...\
 **q4wine-cli** -p \<prefix\_name\> \[-d \<dir\_name\>\] -i \<icon\_name\>\
 **q4wine-cli** -p \<prefix\_name\> -b \<windows\_binary\_path\> \[args\]

## DESCRIPTION

q4wine-cli is part of the Q4Wine project. It provides a console interface to the Q4Wine database and its core functions.\

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

- **-ps, --procs**

  output Wine process list for current prefix or for all prefixes and exit

- **-p, --prefix**

  sets the current prefix name

- **-d, --dir**

  sets the current directory name

- **-i, --icon**

  sets the current icon name

- **-cd, --cdimage**

  sets the cd image name

- **-b, --binary**

  sets the path to Windows binary for execute with current prefix settings

- **-k, --kill**

  sends -9 term signal to current prefix process or for all prefixes processes

- **-pl, --prefixlist**

  output all existing prefix names and exit

- **-dl, --dirlist**

  output all existing dir names for current prefix and exit

- **-il, --iconlist**

  output all existing icon names for current prefix/directory and exit

- **-cl, --cdlist**

  output list of all cd images and exit

- **-ml, --mountlist**

  output all mounted media for current prefix or all prefixes and exit

- **-m, --mount**

  mount a cd image or drive for current prefix and exit

- **-u, --umount**

  umount a cd image or drive for current prefix and exit

- **-h, --help**

  display help and exit

- **-v, --version**

  output version information and exit

## EXIT STATUS

**0** if OK or **-1** if serious troubles

## FILES

- */usr/bin/q4wine*

  The **Q4Wine** main gui program

- */usr/bin/q4wine-cli*

  The **Q4Wine** command line interface program

- */usr/bin/q4wine-helper*

  The **Q4Wine** runner helper program

- */usr/lib/q4wine*

  Directory containing **Q4Wine's** shared libraries

- *$HOME/.config/q4wine*

  Directory containing Q4Wine config, icons, database and temporary files.

## AUTHORS

### Thanks to all:

Q4Wine is available thanks to the work of many to all people, who was involved in the development process, testing, bugreporting, packaging or translation creation. For a full listing of the authors, please see the file **AUTHORS** in the top-level directory of the source distribution.

### Active developers:

- Oleksii S. Malakhov (brezerk) \<**brezerk at gmail.com**\>

  Project maintainer, lead developer, web site designer and developer, project documentation, support, etc. ;)

- Sergey Skrypnic (opium) \<**opium@jabber.com.ua**\>

  Website developer, hosting administration

### Inactive developers:

- Pavel Zinin (pashazz) \<**pzinin at gmail.com**\>

  Winetricks plugin developer

- Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3) \<**amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru**\>

  FreeBSD support fixes

## COPYRIGHT

Q4Wine can be distributed under the terms of the GPLv3 license. A copy of the license is in the file **LICENSE** in the top-level directory of the source distribution.

## AVAILABILITY

The most recent **public** version of wine can be downloaded from *https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/download/*

The latest snapshot of the code may be obtained via **GIT** for information on how to do this, please see *https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/download/#git*

Q4Wine, development headquarters, is at *https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua* This website contains a great deal of information about Q4Wine.

## BUGS

If you find a bug in Q4Wine please report it to \<**brezerk at gmail.com**\> or directly to Q4Wine bug tracker *https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4wine/*

## SEE ALSO

[**q4wine**(1)](/q4wine/1.md), [**q4wine-helper**(1)](/q4wine-helper/1.md), [**wine**(1)](/wine/1.md), [**wineserver**(1)](/wineserver/1.md)