Overview

The GitGuardian CLI, ggshield, provides security guardrails at every stage of your Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
Find and fix more than 350+ types of hardcoded secrets and 70+ Infrastructure-as-Code security misconfigurations.

ggshield [COMMAND] [SUBCOMMAND] [OPTIONS]

Core commands

• ggshield auth
• ggshield secret scan
• ggshield iac scan

caution

Since v1.12.0, the ggshield scan and ggshield ignore commands are deprecated, use ggshield secret scan and ggshield secret ignore instead.

Additional commands

• ggshield secret ignore
• ggshield api-status
• ggshield install
• ggshield quota

Options

• -h, --help: show this message and exit
• --allow-self-signed: ignore ssl verification
• -c, --config-path <FILE>: set a custom config file. Ignores local and global config files
• -v, --verbose: verbose display mode
• --version: show the version
• --check-for-updates / --no-check-for-updates: After executing commands, check or not if a new version of ggshield is available.
• --debug: show debug information.