Sending private message

[lamvann]

Hi, I tried sending a private message but I keep getting a 'channel_not_found' error using the following command:

slack chat send 'Hello world!' @Adel

Note: I can successfully send messages to channel, however i need to send private messages now

Complete error message:
jq: error (at <stdin>:0): Cannot iterate over null (null)
jq: error (at <stdin>:0): Cannot iterate over null (null)
{ "ok": false, "error": "channel_not_found" }

[rockymadden]

@lamvann, thank you. I can also confirm the behavior. Queued up.

[rockymadden]

@lamvann, upon further research I cannot reproduce. My message above was user error, as I put the channel first instead of second. Can you try this curl command:

$ curl -s -X POST https://slack.com/api/users.list --data-urlencode "token=${SLACK_CLI_TOKEN}"

I am curious if you can find the user at hand in the list by another username than they now have, there are permission issues, etc.

[rockymadden]

I added the ability to look up by display name as well: #92

[bmc08gt]

#100 fully resolves this issue