Calling laravel artisan command from console - laravel

Question

I am trying to teach myself Laravel command so that later I use it for scheduling them. This is my kernel file:
namespace App\Console;
use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel;
class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
{
/**
* The Artisan commands provided by your application.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $commands = [
//
'App\Console\Commands\FooCommand',
];
/**
* Define the application's command schedule.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule $schedule
* #return void
*/
protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
// $schedule->command('inspire')
// ->hourly();
$schedule->command('App\Console\Commands\FooCommand')->hourly();
}
/**
* Register the Closure based commands for the application.
*
* #return void
*/
protected function commands()
{
require base_path('routes/console.php');
}
}
And this is the command file inside \App\Console\Commands
namespace App\Console\Commands;
use Illuminate\Console\Command;
class FooCommand extends Command
{
/**
* The name and signature of the console command.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $signature = 'command:name';
/**
* The console command description.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $description = 'Command description';
/**
* Create a new command instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
/**
* Execute the console command.
*
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle()
{
//
}
public function fire()
{
$this->info('Test has fired.');
}
}
I want to test the FooCommand command. How do it call this command from shell so that the result is "Test has fired."?

Answer 1

to run your commands manually: php artisan command:name.
Remove your fire function, you can handle this inside handle function.
Fix your schedule function at Kernel class
class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
{
....
protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
$schedule->command('command:name')
->hourly();
}
}
To config your schedule please read this:
https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/scheduling