---
title: nextflow info
description: Reference for the nextflow info command. Print project or system runtime information.
---

# `nextflow info`

Print project or system runtime information.

## Usage

```console
$ nextflow info [options] [project]
```

## Description

The `info` command prints runtime information about the hardware and software: the Nextflow version and build, the operating system, and the Groovy and Java runtimes. It can also print information about a specific project.

If no run name or session id is provided, it will clean the latest run.

## Options

##### `-u, -check-updates`

Check for remote updates.

##### `-d`

Show detailed information.

##### `-h, -help`

Print the command usage.

##### `-o` (`text`)

Output format, either `text`, `json`, or `yaml`.

## Examples

Display Nextflow runtime and system info:

```console
$ nextflow info

  Version: 20.07.1 build 5412
  Created: 24-07-2020 15:18 UTC (20:48 IDT)
  System: Mac OS X 10.15.6
  Runtime: Groovy 2.5.11 on OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 1.8.0_192-b01
  Encoding: UTF-8 (UTF-8)
```

Display information about a specific project:

```console
$ nextflow info nextflow-io/hello

  project name: nextflow-io/hello
  repository  : https://github.com/nextflow-io/hello
  local path  : /Users/evanfloden/.nextflow/assets/.repos/nextflow-io/hello
  main script : main.nf
  revisions   :
  * master (default)
    mybranch
    testing
  * v1.1 [t]
    v1.2 [t]
```
