signal-cli/README.md
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# textsecure-cli
textsecure-cli is a commandline interface for [libtextsecure-java](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libtextsecure-java). It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. However receiving messages currently doesn't work, because libtextsecure-java [does not yet support registering for the websocket support](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libtextsecure-java/pull/5). For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS.
It is primarily intented to be used on servers to notify admins of important events.
## Usage
usage: textsecure-cli [-h] -u USERNAME {register,verify,send,receive} ...
* Register a number
textsecure-cli -u USERNAME register
* Verify the number using the code received via SMS
textsecure-cli -u USERNAME verify CODE
* Send a message to one or more recipients
textsecure-cli -u USERNAME send -m "This is a message" [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]]
* Pipe the message content from another process.
uname -a | textsecure-cli -u USERNAME send [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]]
## Storage
The password and cryptographic keys are created when registering and stored in the current users home directory.
$HOME/.config/textsecure/data/
## Building
This project uses [Gradle](http://gradle.org) for building and maintaining
dependencies.
1. Checkout the source somewhere on your filesystem wit
git clone https://github.com/AsamK/textsecure-cli.git
2. Execute Gradle:
./gradlew build
3. Create shell wrapper in *build/install/textsecure-cli/bin*:
./gradlew installApp
4. Create tar file in *build/distributions*:
./gradlew distTar
## License
This project uses libtextsecure-java from Open Whisper Systems:
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libtextsecure-java
Licensed under the GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html