Trying Things On-Chain With Aptos CLI
The CLI can be a convenient tool for quickly looking up on-chain data and sending transactions from your accounts.
The most common way to specify what accounts you want to interact with is through profiles. You can create a new profile on the cli by running the following command:
aptos init --profile <your-profile-name>
If any command takes an account, you can pass in the name of a profile instead. If a command implicitly uses the default profile, it will usually have an optional parameter to use a specified profile instead which you can find by running aptos <your-command> --help.
With that, the three main things you can use the CLI to do on-chain include: