skype from the CLI

thufir hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 01:38:50 UTC 2014


On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:11:28 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:

> Compare:
>      --callto:+14445551234
>      
> With
>      --callto <nick>
>      
> Does anything pop out at you?
> 
> Compare to:
> 
>      --callto +14445551234
>      
> Notice anything?


Ah, yes, so it seems to be:

skype --callto <nick>

or

skype --callto <number>


but the help says:

skype:<nick>?<action>   what does this mean?

skype --callto echo     

only seems to launch skype, without initiating a call.


-Thufir






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