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.
mkdir -p cli-workspace/testnet
cd cli-workspace/testnet
Create a file to store some environment configurations.
touch env.sh
Add following lines to env.sh: 
export CARDANO_NODE_PATH=path_to_your_cardano_node_directory
​
alias cardano-cli=$CARDANO_NODE_PATH/cardano-cli
​
export CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH=$CARDANO_NODE_PATH/node-ipc/testnet/node.socket
​
export TESTNET_MAGIC=1097911063
The path_to_your_cardano_node_directory is the directory where cardano-cli executable 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.json file in networkMagic field, if you were following the last chapter to set up your cardano node, the networkMagic should be 1097911063.
To load configurations in current terminal, run:
source env.sh
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: 
cardano-cli query protocol-parameters --testnet-magic $TESTNET_MAGIC
if you see console output like this, your cardano-cli should be configured correctly:
{
    "txFeePerByte": 44,
    "minUTxOValue": 1000000,
    "stakePoolDeposit": 500000000,
    "decentralization": 0,
    "poolRetireMaxEpoch": 18,
    "extraPraosEntropy": null,
    "stakePoolTargetNum": 500,
    "maxBlockBodySize": 65536,
    "maxTxSize": 16384,
    "treasuryCut": 0.2,
    "minPoolCost": 340000000,
    "maxBlockHeaderSize": 1100,
    "protocolVersion": {
        "minor": 0,
        "major": 4
    },
    "txFeeFixed": 155381,
    "stakeAddressDeposit": 2000000,
    "monetaryExpansion": 3.0e-3,
    "poolPledgeInfluence": 0.3
}
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