Deleting Services

The following forms of the "delete" command are accepted:

• Delete by Id
• Delete by service and account name

Delete a Service by ID

Each service is assigned a unique "Id" when it's added to the database. This is shown when 2FA codes are generated and when the contents of the database are listed. For example:

This Id can be used to specify a service to be deleted as follows:

/path/to/OtpGenerator.Terminal --delete id

Where:

Argument	Comments
/path/to/OtpGenerator.Terminal	The path to the OTP Generator binary, named "OtpGenerator.Terminal" on MacOS and Linux and "OtpGenerator.Terminal.exe" on Windows
id	The unique Id for the service/account pair

The application will respond as follows:

Delete a Service by Service and Account Name

To locate the service to be deleted by its name and the associated account, use the following form of the command:

/path/to/OtpGenerator.Terminal --delete "service" "account"

Where:

Argument	Comments
/path/to/OtpGenerator.Terminal	The path to the OTP Generator binary, named "OtpGenerator.Terminal" on MacOS and Linux and "OtpGenerator.Terminal.exe" on Windows
service	The service name
account	The account name

Values need only be quoted "..." if they contain special characters or spaces.

The application will search for a matching record and, if found, will respond as follows: