Salesforce DX Developer Guide

How Salesforce Developer Experience (DX) Tooling Changes the Way You Work
Provide Developers Access to Salesforce DX Tools
Project Setup
Authorization
Metadata Coverage
Scratch Orgs
Sandboxes
Track Changes Between Your Project and Org
Work with Data
Development
Develop Against Any Org
Assign a Permission Set
Create Lightning Apps and Aura Components
Create Lightning Web Components
Create an Apex Class
Create an Apex Trigger
Create a Custom Object
Execute Anonymous Apex
Run Apex Tests
Build and Release Your App
Unlocked Packages
Continuous Integration
Troubleshoot Salesforce DX
Limitations for Salesforce DX
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Execute Anonymous Apex

You can execute an anonymous block of Apex code in an org with the apex run Salesforce CLI command.
  1. Open a terminal (macOS and Linux) or command prompt Windows and change to your Salesforce DX project directory.
  2. Run the apex run command with no flags to open an interactive shell. At the prompt, enter all your Apex code; press CTRL-D when you're finished. Your code is then executed in a single execute anonymous request in the specified org, or the default org if you don’t specify one.
    This output shows an example of executing the Apex code system.debug ('Hello world!');

    Use the --file flag to execute Apex code in a file rather than interactively.