~TiddlyWiki5 includes a set of commands for use on the command line to perform an extensive set of operations based on TiddlyWikiFolders, TiddlerFiles.
Running `tiddlywiki` from the command line boots the ~TiddlyWiki kernel, loads the core plugins and establishes an empty wiki store. It then sequentially processes the command line arguments from left to right. The arguments are separated with spaces.
<<.from-version "5.1.20">> First, there can be zero or more plugin references identified by the prefix `+` for plugin names or `++` for a path to a plugin folder. These plugins are loaded in addition to any specified in the [[TiddlyWikiFolder|TiddlyWikiFolders]].
<<.from-version "5.1.18">> Commands such as the ListenCommand that support large numbers of parameters can use NamedCommandParameters to make things less unwieldy. For example: