Install and manage your Statamic projects from the command line.
composer global require statamic/cli
Make sure to place the $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin directory (or the equivalent directory for your OS) in your $PATH so that the statamic executable can be located by your system.
Once installed, you should be able to run statamic {command name} from within any directory.
From within an existing Statamic project root directory, you may run the following command to quickly find out which version is being used.
statamic version
You may create a new Statamic site with the new command:
statamic new my-site
This will download the latest version and install it into the my-site directory.
From within an existing Statamic project root directory, you may use the following command to update to the latest version.
statamic update
This is just syntactic sugar for the php please update command, available from 2.6 onwards.