Using the Wasmtime CLI - Wasmtime

# Using the `wasmtime` CLI

In addition to the embedding API which allows you to use Wasmtime as a library, the Wasmtime project also provides a `wasmtime` CLI tool to conveniently execute WebAssembly modules from the command line.

This section will provide a guide to the `wasmtime` CLI and major functionality that it contains. In short, however, you can execute a WebAssembly file (actually doing work as part of the `start` function) like so:

    $ wasmtime foo.wasm

Or similarly if you want to invoke a "start" function, such as with WASI modules, you can execute

    $ wasmtime --invoke _start foo.wasm

For more information be sure to check out how to install the CLI, the list of options you can pass, and how to enable logging.