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quickfixing issue #662 to make CLI more userfriendly for inexperienced users (#663)

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* making the cli more user friendly for inexperienced users #662

providing a quickfix for https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/662

Basically I extended the ./lighting-cli --help message to at least state that one should use ./lighting-cli help, and added a hint to cli/lighting-cli help to the README

Closes: #662
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renepickhardt
2018-01-19 11:09:54 +01:00
committed by Rusty Russell
parent ced486e727
commit 69260adb38
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@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ You can start `lightningd` with the following command:
lightningd/lightningd --network=testnet --log-level=debug lightningd/lightningd --network=testnet --log-level=debug
``` ```
### Listing all commands:
`cli/lighting-cli help` will print a table of the API and lists the following commands
### Opening a channel on the Bitcoin testnet ### Opening a channel on the Bitcoin testnet
First you need to transfer some funds to `lightningd` so that it can open a channel: First you need to transfer some funds to `lightningd` so that it can open a channel:

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@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
configdir_register_opts(ctx, &lightning_dir, &rpc_filename); configdir_register_opts(ctx, &lightning_dir, &rpc_filename);
opt_register_noarg("--help|-h", opt_usage_and_exit, opt_register_noarg("--help|-h", opt_usage_and_exit,
"<command> [<params>...]", "Show this message"); "<command> [<params>...]", "Show this message\t use the command help (without hyphen) to get a list of all commands");
opt_register_version(); opt_register_version();
opt_early_parse(argc, argv, opt_log_stderr_exit); opt_early_parse(argc, argv, opt_log_stderr_exit);