CLI Wallet

• 1. Overview
• 2. Purpose
• 3. How to run the Wallet
• 4. Available Commands

1. Overview

Program: eosiowd Path: eos/build/programs/eosiowd

2. Purpose

To store private keys that will be used to sign transactions sent to the block chain. Please note that this is a local process running on your local machine and that it also stores your private keys locally.

3. How to run the Wallet

Start eosiowd process on your local instance as follows:

$ eosiowd 

You will notice that it creates a folder called data-dir and contains a config.ini file. The configuration file contains the http server endpoint for incoming http connections and other parameters for cross origin resource sharing.

The default parameters should be sufficient for running a local instance of wallet process.

4. Available Commands

The command line tool to interact with eosiowd is called “cleos”. It is found in eos/build/programs/cleos folder.

It provides the following commands to interact with eosiowd:

Create

$ cleos wallet create ${options}

Options:

-n,--name TEXT=default The name of the new wallet

If you don’t provide an optional name it creates a default wallet.

Open

Open an already created wallet. You need to open a wallet (if you are not on default wallet) to operate on it.

$ cleos wallet open ${options}

Options:

-n,--name TEXT The name of the wallet to open

Lock

Locks a wallet.

$ cleos wallet lock ${options}

Options:

-n,--name TEXT The name of the wallet to lock

Unlock wallet

$ cleos wallet unlock ${options}

Options:

-n,--name TEXT The name of the wallet to unlock --password TEXT The password returned by wallet create

Import private key into wallet

$ cleos wallet import ${options} key

Positionals:

key TEXT Private key in WIF format to import

Options:

-n,--name TEXT The name of the wallet to import key into

List

List opened wallets, * = unlocked

$ cleos wallet list

Keys

List of private keys from all unlocked wallets in wif format.

$ cleos wallet keys