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Step 4: Set up your config file

A config.yml file creates a local connection to your Shopify store’s theme. You can use the previous information you collected (Theme password and theme ID) to create a config.yml file in your theme, and then download the theme locally.

Steps:

Create a directory for your theme:

3. To download a specific theme, and create the config.yml file that connects this theme with a local version in the directory you just created, run the following command:

theme get --password=[your-password] --store="[your-store.myshopify.com]" --themeid=[your-theme-id]