Topic: Bash script sends BTC to central wallet (Read 2649 times)
Brilliant! thanks, it really needed a bit of a cleanup.
Only issue I had was the cron running as root but I was running bitcoind as a local user... root had no ~/.bitcoind/bitcoin.conf so it was bitching.
I love bash scripting, so please let me help to try to improve this script a bit.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# put btc address in a variable, for clarity
# and in case we should use it for something else
btc_address=1AVgSRgQ4dF8Fwi3hfvFZ1uhnWoWGT25sR
# store current balance
# and check that bitcoind is running in the same time
if balance=$(bitcoind getbalance)
then
# always use '[[' instead of '['
# make sure it works with any number of decimals
# use quotes
if [[ "$balance" =~ ^0.0*$ ]]
then echo "no coins generated"
else bitcoind sendtoaddress $btc_address $balance
fi
else
error=$?
echo "something went wrong. Is bitcoind running ?"
return $error
fi
# put btc address in a variable, for clarity
# and in case we should use it for something else
btc_address=1AVgSRgQ4dF8Fwi3hfvFZ1uhnWoWGT25sR
# store current balance
# and check that bitcoind is running in the same time
if balance=$(bitcoind getbalance)
then
# always use '[[' instead of '['
# make sure it works with any number of decimals
# use quotes
if [[ "$balance" =~ ^0.0*$ ]]
then echo "no coins generated"
else bitcoind sendtoaddress $btc_address $balance
fi
else
error=$?
echo "something went wrong. Is bitcoind running ?"
return $error
fi
Yeah, I saw that but I had issues trying to get it running as it wanted jsonpc stuff. I wanted to get it deployed over quite a few nodes and didnt want alot of manual bits and pieces to addon, perhaps I just missed something obvious 
anyway heres a refined version:
just make a file and put this in /etc/cron.d
Only issue I had was the cron running as root but I was running bitcoind as a local user... root had no ~/.bitcoind/bitcoin.conf so it was bitching.
anyway heres a refined version:
Code:
42 * * * * root if [ $(/usr/local/bin/bitcoind getbalance) = 0.00000000 ]; then echo "No Coins Generated"; else /usr/local/bin/bitcoind sendtoaddress 1AVgSRgQ4dF8Fwi3hfvFZ1uhnWoWGT25sR $(/usr/local/bin/bitcoind getbalance) $HOSTNAME $HOSTNAME; fi
just make a file and put this in /etc/cron.d
Only issue I had was the cron running as root but I was running bitcoind as a local user... root had no ~/.bitcoind/bitcoin.conf so it was bitching.
I just got bitcoin up and running on about 50 cores (not servers) across our hosted env and office. All the logging in and checking balances was getting tedious so I wrote a quick and dirty bash script that sits in /etc/cron.daily and sends payments to my central wallet.. I know I could have used json but sometimes a simple bash script is just the way to go
It assumes that bitcoind is in the PATH.
Hope someone finds it handy... and feel free to add to it.
It assumes that bitcoind is in the PATH.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
balance="$(bitcoind getbalance)"
if [ $balance = 0.00000000 ]
then
echo "No Coins Generated"
else
bitcoind sendtoaddress 1AVgSRgQ4dF8Fwi3hfvFZ1uhnWoWGT25sR $balance $HOSTNAME $HOSTNAME
fi
balance="$(bitcoind getbalance)"
if [ $balance = 0.00000000 ]
then
echo "No Coins Generated"
else
bitcoind sendtoaddress 1AVgSRgQ4dF8Fwi3hfvFZ1uhnWoWGT25sR $balance $HOSTNAME $HOSTNAME
fi
Hope someone finds it handy... and feel free to add to it.
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