How to run .NET Core console app from the command line

Question

I have a .NET Core console app and have run dotnet publish. However, I can\'t figure out how to run the application from the command line. Any hints?

Answer 1

With dotnetcore3.0 you can package entire solution into a single-file executable using PublishSingleFile property

-p:PublishSingleFile=True

Source Single-file executables

An example of Self Contained, Release OSX executable:

dotnet publish -c Release -r osx-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=True --self-contained True

An example of Self Contained, Debug Linux 64bit executable:

dotnet publish -c Debug -r linux-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=True --self-contained True

Linux build is independed of distribution and I have found them working on Ubuntu 18.10, CentOS 7.7, and Amazon Linux 2.

A Self Contained executable includes Dotnet Runtime and Runtime does not require to be installed on a target machine. The published executables are saved under:

/bin//netcoreapp3.0//publish/ on Linux, OSX and

\bin\\netcoreapp3.0\\publish\ on Windows.