Commands Missing from bitcoind -? Output

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st4ke21Member
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#1Jul 29, 2017, 08:46 PM
So, I used to run bitcoind -? or bitcoin-cli -? in the terminal, and it would give me a pretty solid list of commands. But now, I’ve noticed a bunch are gone, like dumpwallet, getblockcount, getaddressbylabel, sendtoaddress, and others. I found a list of them here https://developer.bitcoin.org/reference/rpc/index.html But why are they missing from the help output? Did I miss something? A few years back, this is how I figured out how to use Bitcoin through the command line.
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coin_sigmaLegendary
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#2Jul 29, 2017, 11:21 PM
Have you tried to use bitcoin-cli help instead of using -? it might only show limited commands compared to using "help". I tried to send a command using the command you use and yes it doesn't show these commands I searched in Google to find out why these aren't listed on "-?" but I couldn't find it.
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st4ke21Member
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#3Jul 30, 2017, 12:14 AM
"bitcoin-cli help" was it.    it's funny because i has tried "bitcoin-cli --help" but that just gives the abbreviated list too. thanks for confirming my memory!
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colddiamondHero Member
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#4Jul 30, 2017, 06:25 AM
Side note, but worth mentioning in the old days command ? command help command [blank but needs some arguments to work] all gave more or less the same help info. Now as the OP has mentioned you get different levels of info. It's not just bitcoin but a lot of apps. Not sure why this practice has become more common but it's happening. -Dave
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