The Mule command line tool can be used to perform a variety of tasks, such as starting or stopping a server. On Linux, the Mule command line tool is located in the /bin directory of your Mule application server, such as ${mule_install_root}/app_server/bin/mule. In this example, the Mule command line tool is used to start the application server.
~]# /opt/MuleSoft/devJVM1-373/bin/mule start