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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2016-02-24 11:33:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2016-02-24 11:33:25 +0100 |
| commit | 8b958ab15b8c187dd2041575f7115cbac7591166 (patch) | |
| tree | e3c1287c675572f5d1d195b7b90a5b1fd3382bda /doc | |
| parent | a08c41dfc23234064da322159652b44684df9375 (diff) | |
| parent | f22f14c65bb9fba946e5039132a4c0b01b0c02ce (diff) | |
Merge #7550: rpc: Input-from-stdin mode for bitcoin-cli
f22f14c doc: mention bitcoin-cli -stdin in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
92bcca3 rpc: Input-from-stdin mode for bitcoin-cli (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release-notes.md | 13 |
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 801b684e6b..707f2357f8 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ Example item ---------------- +bitcoin-cli: arguments privacy +-------------------------------- + +The RPC command line client gained a new argument, `-stdin` +to read extra arguments from standard input, one per line until EOF/Ctrl-D. +For example: + + $ echo -e "mysecretcode\n120" | src/bitcoin-cli -stdin walletpassphrase + +It is recommended to use this for sensitive information such as wallet +passphrases, as command-line arguments can usually be read from the process +table by any user on the system. + 0.13.0 Change log ================= |