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okay so bestie, welcome to the telegram-cli man page — yes, the whole manual page, and yes, I'm about to make it make sense. 💖 This is the command-line client for Telegram, and it's lowkey iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

telegram-cli — Command-line interface for Telegram messenger

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

telegram-cli -k [keyfile]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Telegram messenger is a cloud-based instant messaging service built for smart phones, and honestly it's giving Whatsapp but more flexible and more powerful. You can send messages, photos, videos and documents to people who are in your phone contacts (and who have Telegram, obviously). Telegram also supports secret chats, which provide a private (encrypted) way of communication. no cap. 🔐

This package contains a command-line based client for Telegram, and it comes with these features:

  • Colored terminal messages. 🌈
  • Message management: history, stats, etc. 📊
  • Group chat: create and manage groups. 👯
  • Secret chat: secured and encrypted conversations. 🕵️
  • Contact management: add/edit/remove contacts. 📇
  • Multimedia support: send/load photos and videos. 📸

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Telegram-cli Usage

  • -u — specify username (would not be asked during authorization)
  • -k — specify location of public key (possible multiple entries)
  • -v — increase verbosity (0-ERROR 1-WARNIN 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 — diable 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
bestie, -L, -U, -G, -P and -S all want a value after them, so don't leave them hanging. 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

No known bugs. we stay winning. ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Vitaliy Vatman (-@-)

and that's the whole page, periodt. This was telegram-cli man page, version 1.0.5.1, dated 02 October 2014. tysm for reading, ily, go send somebody a secret chat. 🦋💜

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