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.
Commands Missing from bitcoind -? Output
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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.
"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!
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