user106054: I am trying to set up 2 clients with both using the same block directory is this possible?

user7272: bitcoin-cli simply acts as a convenience interface to the JSON-RPC api of bitcoind - as long as you only have one instance of bitcoind using a given datadir, you can safely use multiple bitcoin-cli calls at the same time.

106054: <p>I am trying to set up 2 clients with both using the same block directory is this possible?</p>
 7272: <p><code>bitcoin-cli</code> simply acts as a convenience interface to the JSON-RPC api of <code>bitcoind</code> - as long as you only have one instance of <code>bitcoind</code> using a given datadir, you can safely use multiple <code>bitcoin-cli</code> calls at the same time.</p>
