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With the Craft CLI, is there a way to set which php version to use?

The context here is that the server runs PHP 5.4 for another project, but PHP 7.3 is installed at /usr/bin/php73 and is setup in Apache to use that version for this specific site.

With normal composer install I just specify the path to that version like so:

/usr/bin/php73 /usr/bin/composer update

but I want to be able to run updates via the Craft CLI. The CLI tool then uses the composer version on the server. Is there a way to specify what version of php to use when running commands via the CLI?

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    What host/server/linux distro are you running on? This is something you will need to do server side.
    – dmatthams
    Jun 18, 2020 at 19:04

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This is something I completely overlooked, but the Craft CLI is just a PHP wrapper that's executable on the CLI. So this will work:

/usr/bin/php73 craft help or /usr/bin/php73 craft update all

Will run the CLI with the PHP binary of your choice.

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