core-lightning/test-cli/HOWTO-USE.md

You can see my example test scripts test-cli/scripts/setup.sh and test-cli/scripts/test.sh. They are designed to be run from the test-cli directory.

These are set up for Elements alpha; if you want to use bitcoind (and thus NOPs instead of OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY, as well as being vulnerable to malleability) you can change the "FEATURES :=" line in Makefile (and make clean)

You can see other settings in test-cli/scripts/vars.sh.

As the utilities un test-cli don't keep any state, and don't talk to bitcoind/alphad, the commandlines get ugly fast (and don't handle all cases). They're only for testing.

Good luck!

Rusty.