Triggering a pipeline from the CLI
Most of the time, the scheduler runs your Dag for you, but sometimes you need to run it yourself, for a one-off date or a quick reprocess. The daily_sales_load Dag is already active, and the scheduler has produced one scheduled run. You'll trigger a second run from the CLI and compare how Airflow tags each one.
- Run
airflow dags trigger daily_sales_load --logical-date 2026-04-20in the terminal to trigger a run for a specific date. - Wait about 30 seconds for the manual run to complete.
- Run
airflow dags list-runs daily_sales_loadto see all runs.
After running airflow dags list-runs, you see two runs. Look at the run_id column. What prefix does your manually triggered run start with?
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