BITCOIN-WALLET(1)                User Commands               BITCOIN-WALLET(1)

NAME
       bitcoin-wallet - manual page for bitcoin-wallet v27.0.0

DESCRIPTION
       Bitcoin Core bitcoin-wallet version v27.0.0

       bitcoin-wallet is an offline tool for creating and interacting with
       Bitcoin Core wallet files.  By default bitcoin-wallet will act on
       wallets in the default mainnet wallet directory in the datadir.  To
       change the target wallet, use the -datadir, -wallet and
       -regtest/-signet/-testnet arguments.

   Usage:
              bitcoin-wallet [options] <command>

OPTIONS
       -?

              Print this help message and exit

       -datadir=<dir>

              Specify data directory

       -descriptors

              Create descriptors wallet. Only for 'create'

       -dumpfile=<file name>

              When used with 'dump', writes out the records to this file. When
              used with 'createfromdump', loads the records into a new wallet.

       -format=<format>

              The format of the wallet file to create. Either "bdb" or
              "sqlite". Only used with 'createfromdump'

       -legacy

              Create legacy wallet. Only for 'create'

       -version

              Print version and exit

       -wallet=<wallet-name>

              Specify wallet name

       Debugging/Testing options:

       -debug=<category>

              Output debugging information (default: 0).

       -printtoconsole

              Send trace/debug info to console (default: 1 when no -debug is
              true, 0 otherwise).

       Chain selection options:

       -chain=<chain>

              Use the chain <chain> (default: main). Allowed values: main,
              test, signet, regtest

       -signet

              Use the signet chain. Equivalent to -chain=signet. Note that the
              network is defined by the -signetchallenge parameter

       -signetchallenge

              Blocks must satisfy the given script to be considered valid
              (only for signet networks; defaults to the global default signet
              test network challenge)

       -signetseednode

              Specify a seed node for the signet network, in the
              hostname[:port] format, e.g. sig.net:1234 (may be used multiple
              times to specify multiple seed nodes; defaults to the global
              default signet test network seed node(s))

       -testnet

              Use the test chain. Equivalent to -chain=test.

       Commands:

              create

              Create new wallet file

              createfromdump

              Create new wallet file from dumped records

              dump

              Print out all of the wallet key-value records

              info

              Get wallet info

              salvage

              Attempt to recover private keys from a corrupt wallet. Warning:
              'salvage' is experimental.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2009-2024 The Bitcoin Core developers

       Please contribute if you find Bitcoin Core useful. Visit
       <https://bitcoincore.org/> for further information about the software.
       The source code is available from <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin>.

       This is experimental software.  Distributed under the MIT software
       license, see the accompanying file COPYING or
       <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>

bitcoin-wallet v27.0.0            April 2024                 BITCOIN-WALLET(1)