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## forge

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Build, test, fuzz, debug and deploy Solidity contracts

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```bash
$ forge --help
```

```txt
Usage: forge [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  bind             Generate Rust bindings for smart contracts
  bind-json        Generate bindings for serialization/deserialization of
                   project structs via JSON cheatcodes
  build            Build the project's smart contracts [aliases: b, compile]
  cache            Manage the Foundry cache
  clean            Remove the build artifacts and cache directories [alias: cl]
  clone            Clone a contract from Etherscan
  compiler         Compiler utilities
  completions      Generate shell completions script [alias: com]
  config           Display the current config [alias: co]
  coverage         Generate coverage reports
  create           Deploy a smart contract [alias: c]
  doc              Generate documentation for the project
  eip712           Generate EIP-712 struct encodings for structs from a given
                   file
  flatten          Flatten a source file and all of its imports into one file
                   [alias: f]
  fmt              Format Solidity source files
  fuzz             Run and manage Forge fuzzing corpora
  geiger           DEPRECATED: Detects usage of unsafe cheat codes in a project
                   and its dependencies
  help             Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
  init             Create a new Forge project
  inspect          Get specialized information about a smart contract [alias:
                   in]
  install          Install one or multiple dependencies [aliases: i, add]
  lint             Lint Solidity source files [alias: l]
  lsp              Open Solidity in VS Code or start the language server
  properties       Run agents that prove bugs with failing tests and report the
                   bugs that they agree on
  reinit           Reinitialize the project's Git submodules, discarding local
                   changes
  remappings       Get the automatically inferred remappings for the project
                   [alias: re]
  remove           Remove one or multiple dependencies [alias: rm]
  script           Run a smart contract as a script, building transactions that
                   can be sent onchain
  selectors        Function selector utilities [alias: se]
  snapshot         Create a gas snapshot of each test's gas usage [alias: s]
  soldeer          Soldeer dependency manager
  test             Run the project's tests [alias: t]
  tree             Display a tree visualization of the project's dependency
                   graph [alias: tr]
  update           Update one or multiple dependencies [alias: u]
  verify-bytecode  Verify the deployed bytecode against its source on Etherscan
                   [alias: vb]
  verify-check     Check verification status on the selected verifier [alias:
                   vc]
  verify-contract  Verify smart contracts on Etherscan and Sourcify [alias: v]

Options:
  -h, --help
          Print help (see a summary with '-h')

  -j, --threads <THREADS>
          Number of threads to use. Specifying 0 defaults to the number of
          logical cores
          
          [alias: --jobs]

      --profile <PROFILE>
          The configuration profile to use

  -V, --version
          Print version

Display options:
      --color <COLOR>
          The color of the log messages

          Possible values:
          - auto:   Intelligently guess whether to use color output (default)
          - always: Force color output
          - never:  Force disable color output

      --json
          Format log messages as JSON

      --md
          Format log messages as Markdown

  -q, --quiet
          Do not print log messages

  -v, --verbosity...
          Verbosity level of the log messages.
          
          Pass multiple times to increase the verbosity (e.g. -v, -vv, -vvv).
          
          Depending on the context the verbosity levels have different meanings.
          
          For example, the verbosity levels of the EVM are:
          - 2 (-vv): Print logs for all tests.
          - 3 (-vvv): Print execution traces for failing tests.
          - 4 (-vvvv): Print execution traces for all tests, and setup traces
          for failing tests.
          - 5 (-vvvvv): Print execution and setup traces for all tests,
          including storage changes and
            backtraces with line numbers.

Find more information in the book: https://getfoundry.sh/forge/overview
```
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