> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docpad.bevry.me/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docpad.bevry.me/core/cli.md).
# Command Line Interface
* To discover what commands are available:
```bash
docpad --help
```
* To create your website (if it doesn't already exist), watch for changes, and start the webserver, use:
```
docpad run
```
* To just generate your website from one of the existing skeletons, use:
```
docpad scaffold
```
* To just generate your compiled website, use:
```
docpad generate
```
* To just watch your website for changes and re-generate whenever a change is made, use:
```
docpad watch
```
* To just run the DocPad server to access your already generated website, use:
```
docpad server
```
* To render standalone files with DocPad programmatically (will output to stdout)
```
docpad render filePath
```
For example, to render a markdown file and save the result to an output file, we would use:
```bash
docpad render inputMarkdownFile.html.md > outputMarkdownFile.html
```
* To render stdin with DocPad programmatically (will output to stdout)
```bash
echo $content | docpad render sampleFileNameWithExtensions
```
For example, to render passed markdown content and save the result to a file, we would use:
```bash
echo "**awesome**" | docpad render input.html.md > output.html
```
[
](https://docpad.org/docs/api)
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