<commit_before>The osquery shell and daemon use optional command line (CLI) flags to control
initialization, disable/enable features, and select plugins.

Most of these flag-based parameters apply to both tools and those that do not
control startup settings may be included as "options" to the daemon within its [configuration](../deployment/configuration).

## CLI-only (initialization) flags

`--config_plugin="filesystem"`

Config plugin name

The plugin/type of configuration retrieval, the default "filesystem" plugin reads a configuration JSON from disk.

`--config_path="/etc/osquery/osquery.conf`

(filesystem) config plugin path to JSON config file

The filesystem config plugin's path to a JSON file.
On OS X the default path is "/var/osquery/osquery.conf".
If you want to read from multiple configuration paths create a directory: "/etc/osquery/osquery.conf.d".
All files within that optional directory will be read and merged in lexical order.

`--config_check=false`
<commit_msg>missing quote in docs<commit_after>The osquery shell and daemon use optional command line (CLI) flags to control
initialization, disable/enable features, and select plugins.

Most of these flag-based parameters apply to both tools and those that do not
control startup settings may be included as "options" to the daemon within its [configuration](../deployment/configuration).

## CLI-only (initialization) flags

`--config_plugin="filesystem"`

Config plugin name

The plugin/type of configuration retrieval, the default "filesystem" plugin reads a configuration JSON from disk.

`--config_path="/etc/osquery/osquery.conf"`

(filesystem) config plugin path to JSON config file

The filesystem config plugin's path to a JSON file.
On OS X the default path is "/var/osquery/osquery.conf".
If you want to read from multiple configuration paths create a directory: "/etc/osquery/osquery.conf.d".
All files within that optional directory will be read and merged in lexical order.

`--config_check=false`

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