There are no definition lists in Markdown, and lists get mangled if
they follow immediately: they need a line between them.
So use bullets for options, and use an indent so the text gets in the
line below.
Here's a before-and-after example:
```diff
--- /tmp/after 2022-07-20 21:55:54.355487769 +0930
+++ /tmp/after2 2022-07-20 21:58:17.305642576 +0930
@@ -10,38 +10,71 @@
lightning-cli sends commands to the lightning daemon.
OPTIONS
- --lightning-dir=DIR Set the directory for the lightning daemon we're talking to; defaults to $HOME/.lightning.
+ • --lightning-dir=DIR
- --conf=PATH Sets configuration file (default: lightning-dir/config ).
+ Set the directory for the lightning daemon we're talking to; defaults to $HOME/.lightning.
- --network=network --mainnet --testnet --signet Sets network explicitly.
+ • --conf=PATH
- --rpc-file=FILE Named pipe to use to talk to lightning daemon: default is lightning-rpc in the lightning directory.
+ Sets configuration file (default: lightning-dir/config ).
- --keywords/-k Use format key=value for parameters in any order
+ • --network=network
- --order/-o Follow strictly the order of parameters for the command
+ • --mainnet
- --json/-J Return result in JSON format (default unless help command, or result contains a format-hint field).
+ • --testnet
- --raw/-R Return raw JSON directly as lightningd replies; this can be faster for large requests.
+ • --signet
- --human-readable/-H Return result in human-readable output.
+ Sets network explicitly.
- --flat/-F Return JSON result in flattened one-per-line output, e.g. { "help": [ { "command": "check" } ] } would become
+ • --rpc-file=FILE
+
+ Named pipe to use to talk to lightning daemon: default is lightning-rpc in the lightning directory.
+
+ • --keywords/-k
+
+ Use format key=value for parameters in any order
+
+ • --order/-o
+
+ Follow strictly the order of parameters for the command
+
+ • --json/-J
+
+ Return result in JSON format (default unless help command, or result contains a format-hint field).
+
+ • --raw/-R
+
+ Return raw JSON directly as lightningd replies; this can be faster for large requests.
+
+ • --human-readable/-H
+
+ Return result in human-readable output.
+
+ • --flat/-F
+
+ Return JSON result in flattened one-per-line output, e.g. { "help": [ { "command": "check" } ] } would become
help[0].command=check. This is useful for simple scripts which want to find a specific output field without parsing
JSON.
- --notifications/-N=LEVEL If LEVEL is 'none', then never print out notifications. Otherwise, print out notifications of
- LEVEL or above (one of io, debug, info (the default), unusual or broken: they are prefixed with # .
+ • --notifications/-N=LEVEL
+
+ If LEVEL is 'none', then never print out notifications. Otherwise, print out notifications of LEVEL or above (one of
+ io, debug, info (the default), unusual or broken: they are prefixed with # .
+
+ • --help/-h
+
+ Pretty-print summary of options to standard output and exit. The format can be changed using -F, -R, -J, -H etc.
+
+ • --version/-V
- --help/-h Pretty-print summary of options to standard output and exit. The format can be changed using -F, -R, -J, -H
- etc.
+ Print version number to standard output and exit.
- --version/-V Print version number to standard output and exit.
+ • allow-deprecated-apis=BOOL
- allow-deprecated-apis=BOOL Enable deprecated options. It defaults to true, but you should set it to false when testing to
- ensure that an upgrade won't break your configuration.
+ Enable deprecated options. It defaults to true, but you should set it to false when testing to ensure that an upgrade
+ won't break your configuration.
COMMANDS
lightning-cli simply uses the JSON RPC interface to talk to lightningd, and prints the results. Thus the commands avail‐
@@ -60,13 +93,13 @@
this is not encouraged.
EXAMPLES
- 1. List commands
+ 1. List commands:
- lightning-cli help
+ • lightning-cli help
- 2. Fund a 10k sat channel using uncomfirmed outputs
+ 2. Fund a 10k sat channel using uncomfirmed outputs:
- lightning-cli --keywords fundchannel id=028f...ae7d amount=10000sat minconf=0
+ • lightning-cli --keywords fundchannel id=028f...ae7d amount=10000sat minconf=0
BUGS
This manpage documents how it should work, not how it does work. The pretty printing of results isn't pretty.
```
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This gives a nice way to ensure your secret is the correct one.
Also, we don't need to suppress VALGRIND for this test, now the output
races are fixed.
Changelog-Added: `hsmtool`: new command `checkhsm` to check BIP39 passphrase against hsm_secret.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
tools: Add `generatehsm` method to hsmtool to derivate BIP32 seeds from a
mnemonic using the BIP39 standard.
The new method uses libwally for the BIP39 to BIP32 derivation. It also
fails if an hsm_secret file already exists, so we do not overwrite
someone else's wallet without noticing.
It allows the use of passphrases, the ECHO mode in the terminal is
disable for higher security.
It currently supports "en", "es", "fr", "it", "jp", "zhs", "zht".
Changelog-Added: hsmtool: `hsm_secret` generation from a seed-phrase following BIP39.
The idea is that you regenerate the man pages in the same commit you
alter them: that's how we know whether to try regenerating them or not
(git doesn't store timestamps, so it can't really tell).
Travis will now check this, so force them all to sync to this commit.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Changelog-Added: We now install `lightning-hsmtool` for your `hsm_secret` needs.
See: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/3717#issuecomment-644844594
It seems reasonable to add this to the standard install, and to document it properly as well, hopefully we can fill in the documentation better later on.
