diff --git a/4_2__Interlude_Using_JQ.md b/4_2__Interlude_Using_JQ.md index af41d5b..9a26d80 100644 --- a/4_2__Interlude_Using_JQ.md +++ b/4_2__Interlude_Using_JQ.md @@ -384,9 +384,18 @@ And that's also a good example of why you double-check your fees: we'd intended For more JSON magic (and if any of this isn't clear), please read the [JSON Manual](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/) and the [JSON Cookbook](https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/Cookbook). We'll be regularly using JQ in future examples. -### The Transaction Fee Script +## Make Some New Aliases -If you'd like to have this JQ in a script, you can use the following. +JQ code can be a little unwieldly, so you should consider adding some longer and more interesting invocations to your ~/.bash_profile. + +Any time you're looking through a large mass of information in a JSON object output by a `bitcoin-cli` command, consider writing an alias to strip it down to just what you want to see. +``` +alias btcunspent="bitcoin-cli listunspent | jq -r '.[] | { txid: .txid, vout: .vout, amount: .amount }'" +``` + +## Appendix: The Transaction Fee Script + +The following script runs the "Fee Calculation" from the above example. > **WARNING:** This script has not been robustly checked. If you are going to use it to verify real transaction fees you should only do it as a triple-check after you've already done all the math yourself. @@ -415,14 +424,8 @@ You can then run the script as follows: $ ./txfee-calc.sh $rawtxhex .255 ``` - -## Make Some New Aliases - -JQ code can be a little unwieldly, so you should consider adding some longer and more interesting invocations to your ~/.bash_profile. - -Any time you're looking through a large mass of information in a JSON object output by a bitcoin-cli command, consider writing an alias to strip it down to just what you want to see. +You may also want to create an alias: ``` -alias btcunspent="bitcoin-cli listunspent | jq -r '.[] | { txid: .txid, vout: .vout, amount: .amount }'" alias btctxfee="~/txfee-calc.sh" ```