Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition

Experimenting with Bitcoin-cli

Bitcoin-cli is the command-line interface available with the Bitcoin Core client and can be used to perform various functions using the RPC interface provided by the Bitcoin Core client:

A sample run of bitcoin-cli getinfo; the same format can be used to invoke other commands

A list of all commands can be shown via the command shown in the following screenshot:

Testnet bitcoin-cli' this is just the first few lines of the output, actual output has many commands

The preceding screenshot shows a list of various command-line ...