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.

1. Run airflow dags trigger daily_sales_load --logical-date 2026-04-20 in the terminal to trigger a run for a specific date.
2. Wait about 30 seconds for the manual run to complete.
3. Run airflow dags list-runs daily_sales_load to 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?