besuctl

Hyperledger Besu Command Line Utility

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Overview

This command line utility is intended to enable users to administer, access, and deploy nodes or sidechains to a hyperledger besu network, while using a centeralized LDAP/OAuth2 provider. This example uses auth0, but can be generalized for other 3rd Party Providers. Connecting via LDAP is supported, see roadmap

• Considerations

• Web3 typescript
• Roadmap for features
• Usage
• Commands

Usage

$ npm install -g besuctl
$ besuctl COMMAND
running command...
$ besuctl (-v|--version|version)
besuctl/0.0.2 darwin-x64 node-v12.18.0
$ besuctl --help [COMMAND]
USAGE
  $ besuctl COMMAND
...

Commands

besuctl overview

• besuctl help [COMMAND]

besuctl example command

• besuctl eth chainid

besuctl eth chainid

This returns the chainid from the RPC endpoint you are connected to or localhost, as defined in the .env file

USAGE
  $ besuctl eth chainid

OPTIONS
  -f, --force
  -h, --help       show CLI help
  -n, --name=name  name to print

EXAMPLE
  $ besuctl eth chainid
  
  chainid: 211, 0xd3

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "eth_chainId",
    "params": [],
    "id": 211
}

besuctl help [COMMAND]

display help for besuctl

USAGE
  $ besuctl help [COMMAND]

ARGUMENTS
  COMMAND  command to show help for
  LIST     list all the available commands
OPTIONS
  --all  see all commands in CLI