# Say hello to \`hf\`: a faster, friendlier Hugging Face CLI ✨

DevFeed: [Say hello to \`hf\`: a faster, friendlier Hugging Face CLI ✨](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/say-hello-to-hf-a-faster-friendlier-hugging-face-cli-7238.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-cli>)

Author: Lucain Pouget; Célina Hanouti; Julien Chaumond

Published: 2025-07-25T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [hugging face](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugging-face.md>), [jobs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jobs.md>), [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>)

Tags: [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [hugging-face](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugging-face.md>), [huggingface-hub](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/huggingface-hub.md>), [jobs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jobs.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial introduces the renamed `hf` Hugging Face CLI, explaining its reorganized resource-based command structure, installation and testing, authentication and local profile commands, and compatibility with the legacy CLI. It also presents Hugging Face Jobs, which runs scripts or Docker images on Hugging Face Infrastructure with pay-as-you-go billing.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.