telegram-cli -e with several commands

[triflan]

telegram-cli -e argument works with several commands?
Something like this:
telegram-cli -e 'add contact phone_number name surname msg surname_name hello'

There is a way to use -e argument to send a msg to a phone number and exit?

(thank you)

[beMoD]

Hi,

you can use telegram-cli -e "add contact phone_number name surname\nmsg surname_name hello"

HTH,
beMoD

[triflan]

Doesn't work. Output:

FAIL: 38: too many args #3
All done. Exit
halt

It seems doesn't understand \n as Line Feed (I have also tryied things like \n /\n ^J)

On the other hand, msg command works (for me) as msg name_surname text and no with surname_name

[beMoD]

Did you use the double quotes and not the single quotes as in your example? \n is only interpretet between two ".

The other thing about surname_name <> name_surname happened, because I just copied your example and didn't pay attention to the notation ;-)

[triflan]

Yes and (in my case) the result was the same.
Anyway, I have change the code to use ';' as command separator and another problem arises:
msg peer text fails in arg parsing because (I think) add_contact is not yet executed: first is made the parsing of the commands and after that the execution.

[triflan]

In any case the application is great

[beMoD]

It's really hard to help you with you giving so few information on what you are doing, which commands you are executing and what results you get, sorry.

[luckydonald]

It should split it on '\n'
See for yourself: loop.c:784 @2052f4

[and7ey]

I also would like to send multiple commands with -e argument, but it doesn't work:

./telegram-cli -W -e "msg user#1234567 hi \n msg user#1234567 how are you"

I am on OSX.

[gabeio]

./telegram-cli -f --json -e "contact_list\nhistory @<username> 100" > dump.txt

outputs:

[warn] kq_init: detected broken kqueue; not using.: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Telegram-cli version 1.4.1, Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Vitaly Valtman
Telegram-cli comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show_license'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `show_license' for details.
Telegram-cli uses libtgl version 2.1.0
Telegram-cli includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)
I: config dir=[/Volumes/MacHDD/Users/gabeio/.telegram-cli]
> {"result": "FAIL", "error_code": 78, "error": "can not find command 'contact_list\\nhistory'"}
All done. Exit
halt

clearly the \n is not being parsed properly on macOS/OSX since it's changing from \n to \\n

if I add spaced around \n it then thinks that \n is the next part of contact_list <something> which contact_list has no args

[ailinykh]

Here is working solution (at least for mac os)

[Paulchen232]

@triflan
Hallo triflan!

I have change the code to use ';' as command separator

Can you send me this Code-Change? (My Telegram username is @goossi)