bitcoin-cli
Command-line client to interact with the Bitcoin daemon via RPC calls. Uses the configuration defined in
bitcoin.conf
. More information: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin#Command-line_arguments.
- Send a transaction to a given address:
bitcoin-cli sendtoaddress "{{address}}" {{amount}}
- Generate one or more blocks:
bitcoin-cli generate {{num_blocks}}
- Print high-level information about the wallet:
bitcoin-cli getwalletinfo
- List all outputs from previous transactions available to fund outgoing transactions:
bitcoin-cli listunspent
- Export the wallet information to a text file:
bitcoin-cli dumpwallet "{{path/to/file}}"