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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2019-04-15 14:39:37 +0200
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2019-04-15 14:42:15 +0200
commit2a191b48463adc64dfb6187fccb7742c795dee60 (patch)
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parent8dfbb5cf236cb70a2a1e65b076ccb7e2901833bd (diff)
downloadbitcoin-2a191b48463adc64dfb6187fccb7742c795dee60.tar.xz
Merge #15802: doc: mention creating application support bitcoin folder on OSX
8dfbb5cf236cb70a2a1e65b076ccb7e2901833bd doc: mention creating application support bitcoin folder on OSX (Jack Mallers) Pull request description: When setting up bitcoin core on my new MacBook via the [`macOS Build Instructions and Notes`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-osx.md), running `touch "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/bitcoin.conf"` resulted in `No such file or directory` because my `/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/` folder had not been created yet. This PR adds `mkdir "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin"` to the documentation before creating the configuration file with `touch "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/bitcoin.conf"` ACKs for commit 8dfbb5: fanquake: utACK 8dfbb5cf236cb70a2a1e65b076ccb7e2901833bd Tree-SHA512: c401dae0a681bed77b31939bd29f79837f66c8537da393871fc3596e8c10629b8817ece9c8d49b1b9de34e74e0fbff742a9116b02ce7a71af93f872b87539337
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@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ Bitcoin Core is now available at `./src/bitcoind`
Before running, you may create an empty configuration file:
+ mkdir -p "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin"
+
touch "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/bitcoin.conf"
chmod 600 "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/bitcoin.conf"