---
title: 'print-affected - CLI command'
description: 'Prints information about the projects and targets affected by changes'
---

# print-affected

**Deprecated:** Use `nx show projects --affected`, `nx affected --graph -t build` or `nx graph --affected` depending on which best suits your use case. The `print-affected` command will be removed in Nx 18.

Prints information about the projects and targets affected by changes

## Usage

```shell
nx print-affected
```

Install `nx` globally to invoke the command directly using `nx`, or use `npx nx`, `yarn nx`, or `pnpm nx`.

### Examples

Print information about affected projects and the project graph:

```shell
 nx print-affected
```

Print information about the projects affected by the changes between main and HEAD (e.g,. PR):

```shell
 nx print-affected --base=main --head=HEAD
```

Prints information about the affected projects and a list of tasks to test them:

```shell
 nx print-affected -t test
```

Prints the projects property from the print-affected output:

```shell
 nx print-affected -t build --select=projects
```

Prints the tasks.target.project property from the print-affected output:

```shell
 nx print-affected -t build --select=tasks.target.project
```

## Options

### base

Type: `string`

Base of the current branch (usually main)

### configuration

Type: `string`

This is the configuration to use when performing tasks on projects

### exclude

Type: `string`

Exclude certain projects from being processed

### files

Type: `string`

Change the way Nx is calculating the affected command by providing directly changed files, list of files delimited by commas or spaces

### head

Type: `string`

Latest commit of the current branch (usually HEAD)

### help

Type: `boolean`

Show help

### select

Type: `string`

Select the subset of the returned json document (e.g., --select=projects)

### targets

Type: `string`

Tasks to run for affected projects

### type

Type: `string`

Choices: [app, lib]

Select the type of projects to be returned (e.g., --type=app)

### uncommitted

Type: `boolean`

Uncommitted changes

### untracked

Type: `boolean`

Untracked changes

### version

Type: `boolean`

Show version number