I installed a tool for dotnet CLI, why command tool list did not show it?

Question

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Why dotnetsay tool was not listed?

Answer 1

Why is dotnetsay tool not listed?

Please note that dotnet tool list command does help list all local tools available in the current directory, if you installed dotnetsay as a global tool, you can use following command to list all global tools.

dotnet tool list -g

Test Result

For more information about dotnet tool list command, please check:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-tool-list#examples

Answer 2

The answer for your question, to show your installed tool, use one of these ways:

dotnet tool list -g
dotnet tool list --global
dotnet tool list --tool-path C:\Users\samue

Practices these commands

Case install global:

dotnet tool uninstall dotnetsay --global
dotnet tool list

dotnet tool install dotnetsay --global
dotnet tool list --global
dotnetsay

Case install local:

mkdir C:\foo
dotnet tool uninstall dotnetsay --tool-path C:\foo
dotnet tool list --tool-path C:\foo

dotnet tool install dotnetsay --tool-path c:\foo
dotnet tool list --tool-path C:\foo
cd /d C:\foo
dotnetsay

Reference:

• dotnet tool install https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-tool-install
• dotnet tool list https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-tool-list