List of Rust Cargo Commands

Cargo is the Package Manager as well as the Built Tool for the Rust Programming Language.

So, you will need to make use of cargo commands on a day-to-day basis if you work with Rust.

Sr. No.	Command	Description
1	`cargo new <project-name>`	To create a new Cargo package with the specified name.
2	`cargo b`	Alias for `cargo build`.
3	`cargo run`	To build and run the current package.
4	`cargo test`	To run the tests for the current package.
5	`cargo d`	Alias for `cargo doc`.
6	`cargo update`	To update the dependencies of the current package.
7	`cargo clean`	To remove artifacts that Cargo has generated in the past.
8	`cargo publish`	To publish the current package to the crates.io registry.
9	`cargo install <crate>`	To install the specified crate from crates.io.
10	`cargo uninstall <crate>`	To uninstall the specified crate.
11	`cargo check`	To check a local package and all of its dependencies for errors.
12	`cargo fmt`	To format the source code in the current package according to the project's style guidelines.
13	`cargo bench`	To run the benchmarks defined in the current package.
14	`cargo build --release`	To build the current package with optimizations for release.
15	`cargo run -- <args>`	To run the current package with the specified command-line arguments.
16	`cargo build --target <target>`	To build the current package for the specified target.
17	`cargo doc --open`	To generate documentation and open it in the default browser.
18	`cargo login`	To log in to the crates.io registry.
19	`cargo logout`	To log out from the crates.io registry.
20	`cargo search <crate>`	To search for crates with the specified name on crates.io.
21	`cargo metadata`	To display the metadata about the current package and its dependencies.
22	`cargo --version`	To print the version of Cargo.
23	`cargo --help`	To display help information about Cargo and its commands.
24	`cargo add`	To add dependencies to a Cargo.toml manifest file.
25	`cargo fix`	To automatically fix lint warnings reported by rustc.
26	`cargo generate-lockfile`	To generate the lockfile for a package.
27	`cargo init`	To create a new cargo package in an existing directory.
28	`cargo locate-project`	To print a JSON representation of a Cargo.toml file's location.
29	`cargo package`	To assemble the local package into a distributable tarball.
30	`cargo publish`	To upload a package to the registry.
31	`cargo read-manifest`	To print a JSON representation of a Cargo.toml manifest.
32	`cargo remove`	To remove dependencies from a Cargo.toml manifest file.
33	`cargo rm`	Alias for `cargo remove`.
34	`cargo rustc`	To compile a package, and pass extra options to the compiler.
35	`cargo rustdoc`	To build a package's documentation, using specified custom flags.
36	`cargo search`	To search packages in crates.io.
37	`cargo t`	Alias for `cargo test`.
38	`cargo tree`	To display a tree visualization of a dependency graph.
39	`cargo uninstall`	To remove a Rust binary.
40	`cargo update`	To update dependencies as recorded in the local lock file.
41	`cargo verify-project`	To check the correctness of a crate manifest.
42	`cargo version`	To show version information.
43	`cargo yank`	To remove a pushed crate from the index.

The cargo --help and cargo --list are the two commands that can help you know all the installed cargo commands.

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