cabal Command Examples

Command-line interface to the Haskell package infrastructure (Cabal). Manage Haskell projects and Cabal packages from the Hackage package repository. More information: https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html.

• Search and list packages from Hackage:

cabal list {{search_string}}

• Show information about a package:

cabal info {{package}}

• Download and install a package:

cabal install {{package}}

• Create a new Haskell project in the current directory:

cabal init

• Build the project in the current directory:

cabal build

• Run tests of the project in the current directory:

cabal test