.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.6. .TH BITCOIN-CLI "1" "July 2018" "bitcoin-cli v0.16.99.0" "User Commands" .SH NAME bitcoin-cli \- manual page for bitcoin-cli v0.16.99.0 .SH DESCRIPTION Bitcoin Core RPC client version v0.16.99.0 .SS "Usage:" .TP bitcoin\-cli [options] [params] Send command to Bitcoin Core .IP bitcoin\-cli [options] \fB\-named\fR [name=value] ... Send command to Bitcoin Core (with named arguments) bitcoin\-cli [options] help List commands bitcoin\-cli [options] help Get help for a command .SH OPTIONS .HP \-? .IP This help message .HP \fB\-conf=\fR .IP Specify configuration file. Relative paths will be prefixed by datadir location. (default: bitcoin.conf) .HP \fB\-datadir=\fR .IP Specify data directory .HP \fB\-getinfo\fR .IP Get general information from the remote server. Note that unlike server\-side RPC calls, the results of \fB\-getinfo\fR is the result of multiple non\-atomic requests. Some entries in the result may represent results from different states (e.g. wallet balance may be as of a different block from the chain state reported) .HP \fB\-named\fR .IP Pass named instead of positional arguments (default: false) .HP \fB\-rpcclienttimeout=\fR .IP Timeout in seconds during HTTP requests, or 0 for no timeout. (default: 900) .HP \fB\-rpcconnect=\fR .IP Send commands to node running on (default: 127.0.0.1) .HP \fB\-rpccookiefile=\fR .IP Location of the auth cookie. Relative paths will be prefixed by a net\-specific datadir location. (default: data dir) .HP \fB\-rpcpassword=\fR .IP Password for JSON\-RPC connections .HP \fB\-rpcport=\fR .IP Connect to JSON\-RPC on (default: 8332 or testnet: 18332) .HP \fB\-rpcuser=\fR .IP Username for JSON\-RPC connections .HP \fB\-rpcwait\fR .IP Wait for RPC server to start .HP \fB\-rpcwallet=\fR .IP Send RPC for non\-default wallet on RPC server (needs to exactly match corresponding \fB\-wallet\fR option passed to bitcoind) .HP \fB\-stdin\fR .IP Read extra arguments from standard input, one per line until EOF/Ctrl\-D (recommended for sensitive information such as passphrases). When combined with \fB\-stdinrpcpass\fR, the first line from standard input is used for the RPC password. .HP \fB\-stdinrpcpass\fR .TP Read RPC password from standard input as a single line. When combined .IP with \fB\-stdin\fR, the first line from standard input is used for the RPC password. .HP \fB\-version\fR .IP Print version and exit .PP Chain selection options: .HP \fB\-testnet\fR .IP Use the test chain .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2009-2018 The Bitcoin Core developers Please contribute if you find Bitcoin Core useful. Visit for further information about the software. The source code is available from . This is experimental software. Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying file COPYING or This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit and cryptographic software written by Eric Young and UPnP software written by Thomas Bernard.