4. Claude CLI Commands

Master the Claude Code CLI in 5 minutes. In this tutorial you'll learn every essential terminal command for Claude Code: launching interactive mode, sending one-shot questions, resuming past conversations, updating the CLI, running non-interactive mode for scripts, and piping file content directly into Claude. ⚡ Commands covered claude → start interactive mode claude "explain this project" → launch + ask immediately claude -c → continue last conversation claude update → update Claude Code to latest claude -p "your question" → non-interactive (great for scripts) cat file.py | claude -p "..." → pipe file content into Claude ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:29 claude — interactive mode 1:19 claude "question" — instant ask 2:04 claude -c — continue last conversation 2:37 claude update — keep CLI up to date 3:03 claude -p — non-interactive mode 3:54 Piping files into Claude with | 4:52 Recap In the next video we'll go deeper into prompting Claude inside real projects. Subscribe so you don't miss it. 🔗 Resources - Claude Code docs: https://docs.claude.com/claude-code - Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com #ClaudeCode #CLI #Anthropic #AICoding #TerminalTips