1# Using the `wasmtime` CLI 2 3In addition to the embedding API which allows you to use Wasmtime as a 4library, the Wasmtime project also provides a `wasmtime` CLI tool to conveniently 5execute WebAssembly modules from the command line. 6 7This section will provide a guide to the `wasmtime` CLI and major functionality 8that it contains. In short, however, you can execute a WebAssembly file 9(actually doing work as part of the `start` function) like so: 10 11```console 12wasmtime foo.wasm 13``` 14 15Or similarly if you want to invoke a "start" function, such as with WASI 16modules, you can execute 17 18```console 19wasmtime --invoke _start foo.wasm 20``` 21 22For more information be sure to check out [how to install the 23CLI](cli-install.md), [the list of options you can 24pass](cli-options.md), and [how to enable logging](cli-logging.md). 25