flywithu/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line
1
1
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/ChristopherA/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line.git synced 2025-06-07 07:56:31 +00:00
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

New behavior for dumpwallet command

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Shannon Appelcline 2018-01-25 15:56:49 -08:00 committed by GitHub
parent 70cf29b095
commit 492872b987
No known key found for this signature in database
GPG Key ID: 4AEE18F83AFDEB23
1 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

9
03_3_Setting_Up_Your_Wallet.md
View File

@ -64,7 +64,14 @@ $ bitcoin-cli importwallet backup.dat
Sometimes, you might want to actually look at the private keys associated with your Bitcoin addresses. Perhaps you want to be able to sign a message or spend bitcoins from a different machine. Perhaps you just want to back up certain important private keys.
To look at _all_ the keys in your wallet, type `bitcoin-cli dumpwallet mywallet.txt`. This will create a mywallet.txt file in your current directory with a long list of private keys, addresses, and other information. Mind you, you'd never want to put this data out in a plain text file on a Bitcoin setup with real funds!
To look at _all_ the keys in your wallet, type `bitcoin-cli ~/dumpwallet mywallet.txt`.
```
$ bitcoin-cli dumpwallet ~/mywallet.txt
{
"filename": "/home/user1/mywallet.txt"
}
```
This will create a mywallet.txt file in your home directory with a long list of private keys, addresses, and other information. Mind you, you'd never want to put this data out in a plain text file on a Bitcoin setup with real funds!
More likely, you just want to look at the private key associated with a specific address. This can be done with the `bitcoin-cli dumpprivkey` command.
```