tldr/pages/common/sonar-scanner.md

# sonar-scanner

> A generic scanner for SonarQube projects that do not use build tools such as Maven, Gradle, or Ant.
> More information: <https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/analysis/scan/sonarscanner/>.

- Scan a project with configuration file in your project's root directory named `sonar-project.properties`:

`sonar-scanner`

- Scan a project using configuration file other than `sonar-project.properties`:

`sonar-scanner -D{{project.settings=myproject.properties}}`

- Print help information:

`sonar-scanner -h`

- Print debugging information:

`sonar-scanner -X`