diff --git a/engine/NetStart.go b/engine/NetStart.go
index dd9297690f..63f9ac5be2 100644
--- a/engine/NetStart.go
+++ b/engine/NetStart.go
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ var p2pProxy *P2PProxy
 var p2pNetwork *p2p.Controller
 var logPort string
 
-func NetStart(s *state.State) {
+func NetStart(s *state.State, args []string) {
 	ackBalanceHashPtr := flag.Bool("balancehash", true, "If false, then don't pass around balance hashes")
 	enablenetPtr := flag.Bool("enablenet", true, "Enable or disable networking")
 	waitEntriesPtr := flag.Bool("waitentries", false, "Wait for Entries to be validated prior to execution of messages")
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ func NetStart(s *state.State) {
 	factomdLocationsflag := flag.String("selfaddr", "", "comma seperated IPAddresses and DNS names of this factomd to use when creating a cert file")
 	memProfileRate := flag.Int("mpr", 512*1024, "Set the Memory Profile Rate to update profiling per X bytes allocated. Default 512K, set to 1 to profile everything, 0 to disable.")
 
-	flag.Parse()
+	flag.CommandLine.Parse(args)
 
 	ackbalanceHash := *ackBalanceHashPtr
 	enableNet := *enablenetPtr
diff --git a/engine/factomd.go b/engine/factomd.go
index 4eac047d3d..4eafe5ff8c 100644
--- a/engine/factomd.go
+++ b/engine/factomd.go
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ var _ = fmt.Print
 // Since we are tracking code changes, then there is no need to delete the binary to use the latest message
 var Build string
 
-func Factomd() {
+func Factomd(args []string) {
 	log.Print("//////////////////////// Copyright 2017 Factom Foundation")
 	log.Print("//////////////////////// Use of this source code is governed by the MIT")
 	log.Print("//////////////////////// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.")
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ func Factomd() {
 	state0.SetLeaderTimestamp(primitives.NewTimestampFromMilliseconds(0))
 	fmt.Println("len(Args)", len(os.Args))
 
-	NetStart(state0)
+	NetStart(state0,args)
 }
 
 func isCompilerVersionOK() bool {
diff --git a/factomd.go b/factomd.go
index 33db604927..d075159325 100644
--- a/factomd.go
+++ b/factomd.go
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"github.com/FactomProject/factomd/engine"
+	"os"
 )
 
 func main() {
 	// uncomment StartProfiler() to run the pprof tool (for testing)
-	engine.Factomd()
+	engine.Factomd(os.Args[1:])
 }
diff --git a/scripts/entryloadm2.sh b/scripts/entryloadm2.sh
index 8381103a77..4910a504f2 100755
--- a/scripts/entryloadm2.sh
+++ b/scripts/entryloadm2.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ addentries() {
 	echo "Entry Length " $datalen " bytes, file name: " $datafile
 
 	for ((i=0; i<nentries; i++)); do
-    		cat $datafile | factom-cli -s=$factomd addentry -f -c $1 -e test -e $i -e $RANDOM -e $RANDOM -e $RANDOM $ec1
+    		cat $datafile | factom-cli -s=$factomd addentry  -c $1 -e test -e $i -e $RANDOM -e $RANDOM -e $RANDOM $ec1
 		echo "write entry Chain:"  $2 $i
 		sleep 5.2s
 	done
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ echo "Start"
 
 for ((i=0; i<nchains; i++)); do
 	echo "create chain" $i
-	chainid=$(echo test $i $RANDOM | factom-cli -s=$factomd addchain -f -n test -n $i -n $RANDOM $ec1 | awk '/ChainID/{print $2}')
+	chainid=$(echo test $i $RANDOM | factom-cli -s=$factomd addchain  -n test -n $i -n $RANDOM $ec1 | awk '/ChainID/{print $2}')
 	addentries $chainid $i &
 	sleep 10
 done
diff --git a/scripts/multifactoidtrans.sh b/scripts/multifactoidtrans.sh
index cb895db435..53e878cd25 100755
--- a/scripts/multifactoidtrans.sh
+++ b/scripts/multifactoidtrans.sh
@@ -30,35 +30,35 @@ factom-cli addtxinput  -q t1 $big .001
 factom-cli addtxoutput -q t1 $fct2 .001
 factom-cli addtxfee    -q t1 $big
 factom-cli signtx -q t1
-factom-cli sendtx -q -f t1
+factom-cli sendtx -q  t1
 
 factom-cli newtx -q t1
 factom-cli addtxinput  -q t1 $big .001
 factom-cli addtxoutput -q t1 $fct3 .001
 factom-cli addtxfee    -q t1 $big
 factom-cli signtx -q t1
-factom-cli sendtx -q -f t1
+factom-cli sendtx -q  t1
 
 factom-cli newtx -q t1
 factom-cli addtxinput  -q t1 $big .001
 factom-cli addtxoutput -q t1 $fct4 .001
 factom-cli addtxfee    -q t1 $big
 factom-cli signtx -q t1
-factom-cli sendtx -q -f t1
+factom-cli sendtx -q  t1
 
 factom-cli newtx -q t1
 factom-cli addtxinput  -q t1 $big .001
 factom-cli addtxoutput -q t1 $fct5 .001
 factom-cli addtxfee    -q t1 $big
 factom-cli signtx -q t1
-factom-cli sendtx -q -f t1
+factom-cli sendtx -q  t1
 
 factom-cli newtx -q t1
 factom-cli addtxinput  -q t1 $big .001
 factom-cli addtxoutput -q t1 $fct6 .001
 factom-cli addtxfee    -q t1 $big
 factom-cli signtx -q t1
-factom-cli sendtx -q -f t1
+factom-cli sendtx -q  t1
 
 sleep .8