---
title: influx - InfluxDB command line interface
seotitle: influx - InfluxDB command line interface
description: >
  The influx CLI includes commands to manage many aspects of InfluxDB,
  including buckets, organizations, users, tasks, etc.
menu:
  v2_0_ref:
    name: influx
    parent: Command line tools
weight: 101
v2.0/tags: [cli]
---

The `influx` command line interface (CLI) includes commands to manage many aspects of InfluxDB,
including buckets, organizations, users, tasks, etc.

## Usage
```
influx [flags]
influx [command]
```

{{% note %}}
#### Store your InfluxDB authentication token
To avoid having to pass your InfluxDB [authentication token](/v2.0/users/tokens/)
with each `influx` command, use one of the following methods to store your token:

1.  Set the `INFLUX_TOKEN` environment variable using your token.

    ```bash
    export INFLUX_TOKEN=oOooYourAuthTokenOoooOoOO==
    ```

2.  Store your token in `~/.influxdbv2/credentials`.
    _The content of the `credentials` file should be only your token._

If you [set up InfluxDB using the CLI](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/setup),
InfluxDB stores your token in the credentials files automatically.

_See [View tokens](/v2.0/security/tokens/view-tokens/) for information about
retrieving authentication tokens._
{{% /note %}}

## Commands
| Command                                           | Description                                          |
|:-------                                           |:-----------                                          |
| [auth](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/auth)           | Authorization management commands                    |
| [backup](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/backup)       | Back up data                                         |
| [bucket](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/bucket)       | Bucket management commands                           |
| [delete](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/delete)       | Delete points from InfluxDB                          |
| [help](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/help)           | Help about any command                               |
| [org](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/org)             | Organization management commands                     |
| [ping](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/ping)           | Check the InfluxDB `/health` endpoint                |
| [pkg](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/pkg)             | Manage InfluxDB packages                             |
| [query](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/query)         | Execute a Flux query                                 |
| [repl](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/repl)           | Interactive REPL (read-eval-print-loop)              |
| [secret](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/secret)       | Manage secrets                                       |
| [setup](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/setup)         | Create default username, password, org, bucket, etc. |
| [task](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/task)           | Task management commands                             |
| [transpile](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/transpile) | Manually transpile an InfluxQL query to Flux         |
| [user](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/user)           | User management commands                             |
| [write](/v2.0/reference/cli/influx/write)         | Write points to InfluxDB                             |

## Mapped environment variables
Some `influx` CLI flags are mapped to environment variables.
If those environment variables are set, the flag automatically assumes the value
of the environment variable.
If the flag is included, the specified value overrides the mapped environment variable.

## Flags
| Flag           | Description                   |
|:---------------|:------------------------------|
| `-h`, `--help` | Help for the `influx` command |

{{% cli/influx-global-flags %}}