CLIVE(1) BSD General Commands Manual CLIVE(1)NAMEclive — A console LiveJournal client
SYNOPSISclive [-u username] [-w password] [-j journal] [-s subject] [-r security]
[-f mood] [-i userpic] [-m music] [-l location] [-t taglist]
[-p] [-d] [--backdate YYYYMMDDhhmm] [--replace=itemid]
[--charset encoding] [--plainpass | --hashpass] [--softreturn]
clive [--loginonly | --nologin]
clive [--lfgrp | --laccess | --lpic | --lfriends | --levents[=num]]
clive [--addfriend name | --delfriend name]
DESCRIPTIONclive is a console client for the LiveJournal system. It doesn't offer
much in the way of features. It's strength lies in the ability to pipe
the text for an entry into it on stdin, thus allowing it to be used fil‐
ter-style. It an also lauch your preferred editor to type entries. It
allows for users to login and post/read/replace events, and that's it.
OPTIONS-u username
--user=username
Specify the username
-w password
--password=password
Specify the password
-j journal
--usejournal=journal
Specify the journal to use, if different from the username. You
can also use the associated ID number obtainable with --laccess.
-s subject
--subject=subject
The subject of the post. This will disable interactive entry of
the subject.
-r level
--security=level
Clive defaults to public security, unless specified otherwise.
This option is how you do that from the command line. See the
SECURITY section below for a description of that spec.
-f mood
--mood=mood
LiveJournal allows you to display a mood along with your post Use
this option to set it. Use quotes if you want to have whitespace
in your mood.
-m music
--music=music
Describe the music you are listening to while writing this entry.
Use quotes if you want to have whitespace in your music title.
-l location
--location=location
Describe where you are writing this entry (e.g. the name of your
town).
-t tag[,tag,...]
--taglist tag[,tag,...]
Add tags to categorise this entry. Multiple tags must be sepa‐
rated by commas.
-i keyword
--userpic keyword
Many users have more than one user picture, you can specify which
one you would like to use here. You can either use the picture
keyword, or the ID as specified by --lpic.
-p
--preformat
This will tell LiveJournal that we are sending preformatted text.
This is useful if you have a lot of HTML in it.
-d
--nocomments
This will tell LiveJournal to disable comments on this post.
-v
--version
Display Clive version details and exit.
--help Display a short usage statement.
--backdate YYYYMMDDhhmm
Back date the item to year YYYY, month MM, day DD, hour hh,
minute mm. This will insert it into your journal at that date,
and it will prevent the post from showing on other users' friends
pages.
--replace=itemid
Replace an existing entry. The itemid can be obtained by running
with --levents first. Note that not just the entire text, but all
settings of the post will be overridden, so you should use
--backdate to reuse the old date. To delete an existing entry,
just leave the event text empty.
--charset=encoding
Specify the local character set (e.g. ‘utf-8’, ‘iso8859-2’,
‘koi8-r’). By default, the characterset is automatically
detected (from environment variables and system settings). Use
this option to override the detected value. This option can be
set in the configuration file.
--plainpass
Clive, by default, uses a challenge-response system to verify
your password. If you use this option, it will send your pass‐
word as plaintext. Use of this option is not recommended.
--hashpass
Clive, by default, uses a challenge-response system to verify
your password. If you use this option, it will send an MD5 hash
of your password to the server. Which is faster, but not very
secure. Use of this option is not recommended,
--softreturn
This will collapse multiple lines to a single long line. A new
paragraph can still be started with an empty line in the text. In
general this will generate pretier output on the website. This
option can be set in the configuration file.
--lfrgp
This will display a list of your friends groups with their asso‐
ciated ID numbers.
--laccess
This will display a list of the journals you have access to and
their associated ID numbers. If you join or leave a community,
these numbers will change.
--lpic This will dislpay a list of your userpics and their associated
IDs. If you make any changes to your user pictures, the IDs dis‐
played may change.
--lfriends
This will display a list of your friends and their birthdays (if
set).
--addfriend name
Add a new friend. It is not an error to add an existing friend.
--delfriend name
Delete a friend. It is not an error to delete an already non-
existing friend.
--levents[=num]
This will display a list of the num most recent journal entries.
If no argument is given, it will only show the ID, timestamp and
subject of the most recent entry.
--loginonly
--nologin
These options control the behavior of clive with respect to log‐
ging into the LJ server. Logging in allows you to retrieve any
user-specific information such as friend groups. If you wish to
just login, use --loginonly. If you don't want to login at all
use --nologin.
FILES
~/.cliverc
Your personal configuration file, you can set most options in
here so that you don't have to pass them in on the command line.
SECURITY
LiveJournal has a variety of security settings: public, private, and cus‐
tom. Clive supports all of these through the [-r] or [--security]
option. Posts default to public security unless set on the commandline.
Here are the different security levels and how to specify them.
‘private’
Pass either ‘1’ or ‘private’ as the argument, and you will be the
only person that can view your post.
‘friends’
Pass either ‘2’ or ‘friends’ as the argument, and your post will
only be viewable by the LiveJournal users you list as friends.
‘custom’
LiveJournal allows you to specify up to 30 different friend
groups, and you can set your post readable by different groups.
The way to construct a security spec for a custom setting is to
start with a ‘:’ and then put in the name (e.g.
‘:closefriends’). If you want to use multiple filters, continue
separating with colons. To include whitespace, use quotes.
(e.g. ‘:schoolfriends:2:"Default View"’)
HEADERS
It's annoying when you're editing a posting and realize another subject,
or mood description might be more appropriate. It is now possible to set
these in the posting itself by adding so called headers. If your posting
starts with lines containing special keywords followed by a colon and
value, these will be treated as special meta-information instead of the
body of your posting. For example currently available headers are:
Subject: An example posting
Mood: happy
Music: EAV - Ding Dong
Taglist: example,first post,test
These headers should be separated from the content of your posting by an
empty line.
CONFIGURATION
We understand that it can be annoying to pass in half a dozen command
line options every time you want to post to LiveJournal, so we allow you
to have a configuration file that specifies all of these. You can spec‐
ify key value pairs in your .cliverc for any of the command line options
that take values. Each pair should go on a line of it's own. Any white‐
space before and after the key or value is ignored. Lines that begin with
‘#’ are also ignored. Each pair should look like this:
key = value
ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL
EDITOR The name for the external editor to use. If VISUAL is set, this
will be preferred. If neither variable is set, a very lame built-
in editor will be used This can be overriden in the configura‐
tion file.
SEE ALSO
http://ljclive.sourceforge.net/
AUTHORS
Original author: Samuel Tesla
Current maintainer: Johan van Selst
Contact email: ⟨clive-maintainer@gletsjer.net⟩
April 10, 2002
