The Command Line Interface (CLI)

The NumericalChameleon supports parameters on the command line interface.

In order to get information about this version and also a list of all supported parameters you can use the options "-help" or "-h".

% java -jar nc.jar -help
Checking Java VM version ... OK.
Version:    NumericalChameleon 2.0.0
Patchlevel: 0
Launch:     java -jar nc.jar
Options:    [-rates <exchange rates> -filter <exchange rate filter>]
            [-h|-help]
            [-verbose]
            [-logfile]
            [-reset]

-rates and -filter
With those two options you can update exchange rates on the command line.

-verbose
Prints more information about the startup procedure and the environment.

-reset
Removes custom properties (it does not touch the favorites file). This option is useful if you don't have access to the GUI anymore.

-logfile
Stores information from both the standard input and the standard output to two files called nc<version>_out.log and nc<version>_err.log.