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Configuring Cardano CLI
Make sure you have a cardano node running on testnet, and it's synced with other nodes. If you don't have one, check the previous chapter to set it up.
In this tutorial, I'm using
cardano-cli 1.26.1, if you are using other version, the commands might be different.First, let's create a
cli-workspace/testnet directory as our workspace, you can create this directory anywhere.1
mkdir -p cli-workspace/testnet
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cd cli-workspace/testnet
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Create a file to store some environment configurations.
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touch env.sh
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Add following lines to
env.sh: 1
export CARDANO_NODE_PATH=path_to_your_cardano_node_directory
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alias cardano-cli=$CARDANO_NODE_PATH/cardano-cli
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export CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH=$CARDANO_NODE_PATH/node-ipc/testnet/node.socket
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export TESTNET_MAGIC=1097911063
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- The
path_to_your_cardano_node_directoryis the directory wherecardano-cliexecutable is located. - If you were following the last chapter to set up cardano node, your node socket path should be
$CARDANO_NODE_PATH/node-ipc/testnet/node.socket. - The testnet magic can be found in
testnet-shelley-genesis.jsonfile innetworkMagicfield, if you were following the last chapter to set up your cardano node, thenetworkMagicshould be1097911063.
To load configurations in current terminal, run:
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source env.sh
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Note that everytime you open a new console, you need to run
source env.sh command.Now, make sure your cardano node is running at background, then let's test if
cardano-cli is working: 1
cardano-cli query protocol-parameters --testnet-magic $TESTNET_MAGIC
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if you see console output like this, your
cardano-cli should be configured correctly:1
{
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"txFeePerByte": 44,
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"minUTxOValue": 1000000,
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"stakePoolDeposit": 500000000,
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"decentralization": 0,
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"poolRetireMaxEpoch": 18,
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"extraPraosEntropy": null,
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"stakePoolTargetNum": 500,
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"maxBlockBodySize": 65536,
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"maxTxSize": 16384,
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"treasuryCut": 0.2,
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"minPoolCost": 340000000,
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"maxBlockHeaderSize": 1100,
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"protocolVersion": {
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"minor": 0,
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"major": 4
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},
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"txFeeFixed": 155381,
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"stakeAddressDeposit": 2000000,
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"monetaryExpansion": 3.0e-3,
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"poolPledgeInfluence": 0.3
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}
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