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The blockchaininfo command is now returning a lot of "softfork" information.
Is there a way I can get other fields without the softfork blob?
getblockchaininfo returning excessive "soft fork" info
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You can use the jq shell command to filter out the unwanted keys.
$ ./bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo | jq 'del (.softforks)' | jq 'del (.bip9_softforks)'
with as output:
{
"chain": "main",
"blocks": 485623,
"headers": 485623,
"bestblockhash": "000000000000000000772fa60c075c57b8ba2db277a84454e1f8e27c3c307b10",
"difficulty": 922724699725.9628,
"mediantime": 1505593445,
"verificationprogress": 0.9999959396017668,
"chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000008aeb8bb8310a6b50e24bb0",
"pruned": false
}
2Don't look at them? Or if you're using
bitcoin-cli, usejqor evengrepto filter them out? – Pieter Wuille – 2017-08-15T04:07:08.800@PieterWuille You know, Pieter, blockchaininfo is a very commonly used command. It makes sense to return a single screen of the most useful information. For most users, the key thing is to make sure that they are synced, which means comparing the block count to the headers. Scrolling this critical information off the screen with a lot of softfork verbiage is a nuisance. There should either be a switch to remove that information altogether or at least it should be distilled to a synopsis so that the printout stays on one page. – Tyler Durden – 2017-08-15T12:07:45.013
RPC calls are more intended to be machine readable than human readable. – Pieter Wuille – 2017-08-15T17:15:08.450