# Presto 316 Documentation

## 2.2. Command Line Interface

The Presto CLI provides a terminal-based interactive shell for running queries. The CLI is a self-executing JAR file, which means it acts like a normal UNIX executable.

Download presto-cli-316-executable.jar, rename it to `presto`, make it executable with `chmod +x`, then run it:

    ./presto --server localhost:8080 --catalog hive --schema default

Run the CLI with the `--help` option to see the available options.

By default, the results of queries are paginated using the `less` program which is configured with a carefully selected set of options. This behavior can be overridden by setting the environment variable `PRESTO_PAGER` to the name of a different program such as `more`, or set it to an empty value to completely disable pagination.