Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@csknk

csknk/getchaintips.sh

Created August 25, 2023 17:08
Show Gist options
  • Save csknk/a8761a820439b37ef9ed818e32e04f23 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save csknk/a8761a820439b37ef9ed818e32e04f23 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP

Revisions

  1. csknk created this gist Aug 25, 2023.
    31 changes: 31 additions & 0 deletions getchaintips.sh
    View file
    Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
    @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    # Basic script to run against Bitcoin bitcoind server on LAN
    # Ref: Bitcoin Core getchaintips RPC command: https://bitcoincore.org/en/doc/0.21.0/rpc/blockchain/getchaintips

    set -eou pipefail
    IFS=$'\n\t'
    # Set variables ----
    user=XXXXXX
    password=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    node_ip=192.168.0.XXX
    # End --------------

    port=8332

    data=$(
    cat <<-EOF
    {
    "jsonrpc": "1.0",
    "id": "curltest",
    "method": "getchaintips"
    }
    EOF
    )

    # Add -vvvv for verbose output/debugging
    curl \
    -vvvv \
    --user "${user}:${password}" \
    --data-binary "$data" \
    -H 'content-type: text/plain;' \
    "${node_ip}:${port}"