Telegram CLI Arguments

Telegram CLI Arguments

The Telegram CLI-client offers various arguments to be passed at execution. This is basically a list that can be retrieved by executing telegram-cli -h.

Available arguments

The following arguments are available:

-u                  specify username (would not be asked during authorization)
-k                  specify location of public key (possible multiple entries)
-v                  increase verbosity (0-ERROR 1-WARNING 2-NOTICE 3+-DEBUG-levels)
-N                  message num mode
-c                  config file name
-p                  use specified profile
-l                  log level
-f                  during authorization fetch all messages since registration
-E                  disable auto accept of encrypted chats
-s                  lua script file
-W                  send dialog_list query and wait for answer before reading input
-C                  disable color output
-R                  disable readline
-d                  daemon mode
-L <log-name>       log file name
-U <user-name>      change uid after start
-G <group-name>     change gid after start
-D                  disable output
-P <port>           port to listen for input commands
-S <socket-name>    unix socket to create
-e <commands>       make commands end exit
-I                  use user and chat IDs in updates instead of names
-6                  use ipv6 (may be unstable)