Geth console --help

geth console --help

NAME:
   geth console - Start an interactive JavaScript environment

USAGE:
   geth console [command options] [arguments...]

DESCRIPTION:
   
   The Geth console is an interactive shell for the JavaScript runtime environment
   which exposes a node admin interface as well as the Ðapp JavaScript API.
   See https://geth.ethereum.org/docs/interacting-with-geth/javascript-console.

OPTIONS:
   ACCOUNT

   
    --allow-insecure-unlock             (default: false)                   ($GETH_ALLOW_INSECURE_UNLOCK)
          Allow insecure account unlocking when account-related RPCs are exposed by http
   
    --keystore value                                                       ($GETH_KEYSTORE)
          Directory for the keystore (default = inside the datadir)
   
    --lightkdf                          (default: false)                   ($GETH_LIGHTKDF)
          Reduce key-derivation RAM & CPU usage at some expense of KDF strength
   
    --password value                                                       ($GETH_PASSWORD)
          Password file to use for non-interactive password input
   
    --pcscdpath value                                                      ($GETH_PCSCDPATH)
          Path to the smartcard daemon (pcscd) socket file
   
    --signer value                                                         ($GETH_SIGNER)
          External signer (url or path to ipc file)
   
    --unlock value                                                         ($GETH_UNLOCK)
          Comma separated list of accounts to unlock
   
    --usb                               (default: false)                   ($GETH_USB)
          Enable monitoring and management of USB hardware wallets

   ALIASED (deprecated)

   
    --cache.trie.journal value                                             ($GETH_CACHE_TRIE_JOURNAL)
          Disk journal directory for trie cache to survive node restarts
   
    --cache.trie.rejournal value        (default: 0s)                      ($GETH_CACHE_TRIE_REJOURNAL)
          Time interval to regenerate the trie cache journal
   
    --log.backtrace value                                                  ($GETH_LOG_BACKTRACE)
          Request a stack trace at a specific logging statement (deprecated)
   
    --log.debug                         (default: false)                   ($GETH_LOG_DEBUG)
          Prepends log messages with call-site location (deprecated)
   
    --nousb                             (default: false)                   ($GETH_NOUSB)
          Disables monitoring for and managing USB hardware wallets (deprecated)
   
    --txlookuplimit value               (default: 2350000)                 ($GETH_TXLOOKUPLIMIT)
          Number of recent blocks to maintain transactions index for (default = about one
          year, 0 = entire chain) (deprecated, use history.transactions instead)
   
    --v5disc                            (default: false)                   ($GETH_V5DISC)
          Enables the experimental RLPx V5 (Topic Discovery) mechanism (deprecated, use
          --discv5 instead)
   
    --whitelist value                                                      ($GETH_WHITELIST)
          Comma separated block number-to-hash mappings to enforce (<number>=<hash>)
          (deprecated in favor of --eth.requiredblocks)

   API AND CONSOLE

   
    --authrpc.addr value                (default: "localhost")             ($GETH_AUTHRPC_ADDR)
          Listening address for authenticated APIs
   
    --authrpc.jwtsecret value                                              ($GETH_AUTHRPC_JWTSECRET)
          Path to a JWT secret to use for authenticated RPC endpoints
   
    --authrpc.port value                (default: 8551)                    ($GETH_AUTHRPC_PORT)
          Listening port for authenticated APIs
   
    --authrpc.vhosts value              (default: "localhost")             ($GETH_AUTHRPC_VHOSTS)
          Comma separated list of virtual hostnames from which to accept requests (server
          enforced). Accepts '*' wildcard.
   
    --exec value                                                           ($GETH_EXEC)
          Execute JavaScript statement
   
    --graphql                           (default: false)                   ($GETH_GRAPHQL)
          Enable GraphQL on the HTTP-RPC server. Note that GraphQL can only be started if
          an HTTP server is started as well.
   
    --graphql.corsdomain value                                             ($GETH_GRAPHQL_CORSDOMAIN)
          Comma separated list of domains from which to accept cross origin requests
          (browser enforced)
   
    --graphql.vhosts value              (default: "localhost")             ($GETH_GRAPHQL_VHOSTS)
          Comma separated list of virtual hostnames from which to accept requests (server
          enforced). Accepts '*' wildcard.
   
    --header value, -H value                                               ($GETH_HEADER)
          Pass custom headers to the RPC server when using --remotedb or the geth attach
          console. This flag can be given multiple times.
   
    --http                              (default: false)                   ($GETH_HTTP)
          Enable the HTTP-RPC server
   
    --http.addr value                   (default: "localhost")             ($GETH_HTTP_ADDR)
          HTTP-RPC server listening interface
   
    --http.api value                                                       ($GETH_HTTP_API)
          API's offered over the HTTP-RPC interface
   
    --http.corsdomain value                                                ($GETH_HTTP_CORSDOMAIN)
          Comma separated list of domains from which to accept cross origin requests
          (browser enforced)
   
    --http.port value                   (default: 8545)                    ($GETH_HTTP_PORT)
          HTTP-RPC server listening port
   
    --http.rpcprefix value                                                 ($GETH_HTTP_RPCPREFIX)
          HTTP path path prefix on which JSON-RPC is served. Use '/' to serve on all
          paths.
   
    --http.vhosts value                 (default: "localhost")             ($GETH_HTTP_VHOSTS)
          Comma separated list of virtual hostnames from which to accept requests (server
          enforced). Accepts '*' wildcard.
   
    --ipcdisable                        (default: false)                   ($GETH_IPCDISABLE)
          Disable the IPC-RPC server
   
    --ipcpath value                                                        ($GETH_IPCPATH)
          Filename for IPC socket/pipe within the datadir (explicit paths escape it)
   
    --jspath value                      (default: .)                       ($GETH_JSPATH)
          JavaScript root path for `loadScript`
   
    --preload value                                                        ($GETH_PRELOAD)
          Comma separated list of JavaScript files to preload into the console
   
    --rpc.allow-unprotected-txs         (default: false)                   ($GETH_RPC_ALLOW_UNPROTECTED_TXS)
          Allow for unprotected (non EIP155 signed) transactions to be submitted via RPC
   
    --rpc.batch-request-limit value     (default: 1000)                    ($GETH_RPC_BATCH_REQUEST_LIMIT)
          Maximum number of requests in a batch
   
    --rpc.batch-response-max-size value (default: 25000000)                ($GETH_RPC_BATCH_RESPONSE_MAX_SIZE)
          Maximum number of bytes returned from a batched call
   
    --rpc.enabledeprecatedpersonal      (default: false)                   ($GETH_RPC_ENABLEDEPRECATEDPERSONAL)
          Enables the (deprecated) personal namespace
   
    --rpc.evmtimeout value              (default: 5s)                      ($GETH_RPC_EVMTIMEOUT)
          Sets a timeout used for eth_call (0=infinite)
   
    --rpc.gascap value                  (default: 50000000)                ($GETH_RPC_GASCAP)
          Sets a cap on gas that can be used in eth_call/estimateGas (0=infinite)
   
    --rpc.txfeecap value                (default: 1)                       ($GETH_RPC_TXFEECAP)
          Sets a cap on transaction fee (in ether) that can be sent via the RPC APIs (0 =
          no cap)
   
    --ws                                (default: false)                   ($GETH_WS)
          Enable the WS-RPC server
   
    --ws.addr value                     (default: "localhost")             ($GETH_WS_ADDR)
          WS-RPC server listening interface
   
    --ws.api value                                                         ($GETH_WS_API)
          API's offered over the WS-RPC interface
   
    --ws.origins value                                                     ($GETH_WS_ORIGINS)
          Origins from which to accept websockets requests
   
    --ws.port value                     (default: 8546)                    ($GETH_WS_PORT)
          WS-RPC server listening port
   
    --ws.rpcprefix value                                                   ($GETH_WS_RPCPREFIX)
          HTTP path prefix on which JSON-RPC is served. Use '/' to serve on all paths.

   DEVELOPER CHAIN

   
    --dev                               (default: false)                   ($GETH_DEV)
          Ephemeral proof-of-authority network with a pre-funded developer account, mining
          enabled
   
    --dev.gaslimit value                (default: 11500000)                ($GETH_DEV_GASLIMIT)
          Initial block gas limit
   
    --dev.period value                  (default: 0)                       ($GETH_DEV_PERIOD)
          Block period to use in developer mode (0 = mine only if transaction pending)

   ETHEREUM

   
    --bloomfilter.size value            (default: 2048)                    ($GETH_BLOOMFILTER_SIZE)
          Megabytes of memory allocated to bloom-filter for pruning
   
    --config value                                                         ($GETH_CONFIG)
          TOML configuration file
   
    --datadir value                     (default: /Users/user/Library/Ethereum) ($GETH_DATADIR)
          Data directory for the databases and keystore
   
    --datadir.ancient value                                                ($GETH_DATADIR_ANCIENT)
          Root directory for ancient data (default = inside chaindata)
   
    --datadir.minfreedisk value                                            ($GETH_DATADIR_MINFREEDISK)
          Minimum free disk space in MB, once reached triggers auto shut down (default =
          --cache.gc converted to MB, 0 = disabled)
   
    --db.engine value                                                      ($GETH_DB_ENGINE)
          Backing database implementation to use ('pebble' or 'leveldb')
   
    --eth.requiredblocks value                                             ($GETH_ETH_REQUIREDBLOCKS)
          Comma separated block number-to-hash mappings to require for peering
          (<number>=<hash>)
   
    --exitwhensynced                    (default: false)                   ($GETH_EXITWHENSYNCED)
          Exits after block synchronisation completes
   
    --goerli                            (default: false)                   ($GETH_GOERLI)
          Görli network: pre-configured proof-of-authority test network
   
    --holesky                           (default: false)                   ($GETH_HOLESKY)
          Holesky network: pre-configured proof-of-stake test network
   
    --mainnet                           (default: false)                   ($GETH_MAINNET)
          Ethereum mainnet
   
    --networkid value                   (default: 0)                       ($GETH_NETWORKID)
          Explicitly set network id (integer)(For testnets: use --goerli, --sepolia,
          --holesky instead)
   
    --override.cancun value             (default: 0)                       ($GETH_OVERRIDE_CANCUN)
          Manually specify the Cancun fork timestamp, overriding the bundled setting
   
    --override.verkle value             (default: 0)                       ($GETH_OVERRIDE_VERKLE)
          Manually specify the Verkle fork timestamp, overriding the bundled setting
   
    --sepolia                           (default: false)                   ($GETH_SEPOLIA)
          Sepolia network: pre-configured proof-of-work test network
   
    --snapshot                          (default: true)                    ($GETH_SNAPSHOT)
          Enables snapshot-database mode (default = enable)

   GAS PRICE ORACLE

   
    --gpo.blocks value                  (default: 20)                      ($GETH_GPO_BLOCKS)
          Number of recent blocks to check for gas prices
   
    --gpo.ignoreprice value             (default: 2)                       ($GETH_GPO_IGNOREPRICE)
          Gas price below which gpo will ignore transactions
   
    --gpo.maxprice value                (default: 500000000000)            ($GETH_GPO_MAXPRICE)
          Maximum transaction priority fee (or gasprice before London fork) to be
          recommended by gpo
   
    --gpo.percentile value              (default: 60)                      ($GETH_GPO_PERCENTILE)
          Suggested gas price is the given percentile of a set of recent transaction gas
          prices

   LIGHT CLIENT

   
    --light.egress value                (default: 0)                       ($GETH_LIGHT_EGRESS)
          Outgoing bandwidth limit for serving light clients (deprecated)
   
    --light.ingress value               (default: 0)                       ($GETH_LIGHT_INGRESS)
          Incoming bandwidth limit for serving light clients (deprecated)
   
    --light.maxpeers value              (default: 100)                     ($GETH_LIGHT_MAXPEERS)
          Maximum number of light clients to serve, or light servers to attach to
          (deprecated)
   
    --light.nopruning                   (default: false)                   ($GETH_LIGHT_NOPRUNING)
          Disable ancient light chain data pruning (deprecated)
   
    --light.nosyncserve                 (default: false)                   ($GETH_LIGHT_NOSYNCSERVE)
          Enables serving light clients before syncing (deprecated)
   
    --light.serve value                 (default: 0)                       ($GETH_LIGHT_SERVE)
          Maximum percentage of time allowed for serving LES requests (deprecated)

   LOGGING AND DEBUGGING

   
    --nocompaction                      (default: false)                   ($GETH_NOCOMPACTION)
          Disables db compaction after import
   
    --remotedb value                                                       ($GETH_REMOTEDB)
          URL for remote database

   METRICS AND STATS

   
    --ethstats value                                                       ($GETH_ETHSTATS)
          Reporting URL of a ethstats service (nodename:secret@host:port)

   MINER

   
    --mine                              (default: false)                   ($GETH_MINE)
          Enable mining
   
    --miner.etherbase value                                                ($GETH_MINER_ETHERBASE)
          0x prefixed public address for block mining rewards
   
    --miner.extradata value                                                ($GETH_MINER_EXTRADATA)
          Block extra data set by the miner (default = client version)
   
    --miner.gaslimit value              (default: 30000000)                ($GETH_MINER_GASLIMIT)
          Target gas ceiling for mined blocks
   
    --miner.gasprice value              (default: 0)                       ($GETH_MINER_GASPRICE)
          Minimum gas price for mining a transaction
   
    --miner.newpayload-timeout value    (default: 2s)                      ($GETH_MINER_NEWPAYLOAD_TIMEOUT)
          Specify the maximum time allowance for creating a new payload
   
    --miner.recommit value              (default: 2s)                      ($GETH_MINER_RECOMMIT)
          Time interval to recreate the block being mined

   MISC

   
    --synctarget value                                                     ($GETH_SYNCTARGET)
          Hash of the block to full sync to (dev testing feature)

   NETWORKING

   
    --bootnodes value                                                      ($GETH_BOOTNODES)
          Comma separated enode URLs for P2P discovery bootstrap
   
    --discovery.dns value                                                  ($GETH_DISCOVERY_DNS)
          Sets DNS discovery entry points (use "" to disable DNS)
   
    --discovery.port value              (default: 30303)                   ($GETH_DISCOVERY_PORT)
          Use a custom UDP port for P2P discovery
   
    --discovery.v4, --discv4            (default: true)                    ($GETH_DISCOVERY_V4)
          Enables the V4 discovery mechanism
   
    --discovery.v5, --discv5            (default: false)                   ($GETH_DISCOVERY_V5)
          Enables the experimental RLPx V5 (Topic Discovery) mechanism
   
    --identity value                                                       ($GETH_IDENTITY)
          Custom node name
   
    --maxpeers value                    (default: 50)                      ($GETH_MAXPEERS)
          Maximum number of network peers (network disabled if set to 0)
   
    --maxpendpeers value                (default: 0)                       ($GETH_MAXPENDPEERS)
          Maximum number of pending connection attempts (defaults used if set to 0)
   
    --nat value                         (default: "any")                   ($GETH_NAT)
          NAT port mapping mechanism (any|none|upnp|pmp|pmp:<IP>|extip:<IP>)
   
    --netrestrict value                                                    ($GETH_NETRESTRICT)
          Restricts network communication to the given IP networks (CIDR masks)
   
    --nodekey value                                                        ($GETH_NODEKEY)
          P2P node key file
   
    --nodekeyhex value                                                     ($GETH_NODEKEYHEX)
          P2P node key as hex (for testing)
   
    --nodiscover                        (default: false)                   ($GETH_NODISCOVER)
          Disables the peer discovery mechanism (manual peer addition)
   
    --port value                        (default: 30303)                   ($GETH_PORT)
          Network listening port

   PERFORMANCE TUNING

   
    --cache value                       (default: 1024)                    ($GETH_CACHE)
          Megabytes of memory allocated to internal caching (default = 4096 mainnet full
          node, 128 light mode)
   
    --cache.blocklogs value             (default: 32)                      ($GETH_CACHE_BLOCKLOGS)
          Size (in number of blocks) of the log cache for filtering
   
    --cache.database value              (default: 50)                      ($GETH_CACHE_DATABASE)
          Percentage of cache memory allowance to use for database io
   
    --cache.gc value                    (default: 25)                      ($GETH_CACHE_GC)
          Percentage of cache memory allowance to use for trie pruning (default = 25% full
          mode, 0% archive mode)
   
    --cache.noprefetch                  (default: false)                   ($GETH_CACHE_NOPREFETCH)
          Disable heuristic state prefetch during block import (less CPU and disk IO, more
          time waiting for data)
   
    --cache.preimages                   (default: false)                   ($GETH_CACHE_PREIMAGES)
          Enable recording the SHA3/keccak preimages of trie keys
   
    --cache.snapshot value              (default: 10)                      ($GETH_CACHE_SNAPSHOT)
          Percentage of cache memory allowance to use for snapshot caching (default = 10%
          full mode, 20% archive mode)
   
    --cache.trie value                  (default: 15)                      ($GETH_CACHE_TRIE)
          Percentage of cache memory allowance to use for trie caching (default = 15% full
          mode, 30% archive mode)
   
    --crypto.kzg value                  (default: "gokzg")                 ($GETH_CRYPTO_KZG)
          KZG library implementation to use; gokzg (recommended) or ckzg
   
    --fdlimit value                     (default: 0)                       ($GETH_FDLIMIT)
          Raise the open file descriptor resource limit (default = system fd limit)

   STATE HISTORY MANAGEMENT

   
    --gcmode value                      (default: "full")                  ($GETH_GCMODE)
          Blockchain garbage collection mode, only relevant in state.scheme=hash ("full",
          "archive")
   
    --history.state value               (default: 90000)                   ($GETH_HISTORY_STATE)
          Number of recent blocks to retain state history for (default = 90,000 blocks, 0
          = entire chain)
   
    --history.transactions value        (default: 2350000)                 ($GETH_HISTORY_TRANSACTIONS)
          Number of recent blocks to maintain transactions index for (default = about one
          year, 0 = entire chain)
   
    --state.scheme value                                                   ($GETH_STATE_SCHEME)
          Scheme to use for storing ethereum state ('hash' or 'path')
   
    --syncmode value                    (default: snap)                    ($GETH_SYNCMODE)
          Blockchain sync mode ("snap" or "full")

   TRANSACTION POOL (BLOB)

   
    --blobpool.datacap value            (default: 10737418240)             ($GETH_BLOBPOOL_DATACAP)
          Disk space to allocate for pending blob transactions (soft limit)
   
    --blobpool.datadir value            (default: "blobpool")              ($GETH_BLOBPOOL_DATADIR)
          Data directory to store blob transactions in
   
    --blobpool.pricebump value          (default: 100)                     ($GETH_BLOBPOOL_PRICEBUMP)
          Price bump percentage to replace an already existing blob transaction

   TRANSACTION POOL (EVM)

   
    --txpool.accountqueue value         (default: 64)                      ($GETH_TXPOOL_ACCOUNTQUEUE)
          Maximum number of non-executable transaction slots permitted per account
   
    --txpool.accountslots value         (default: 16)                      ($GETH_TXPOOL_ACCOUNTSLOTS)
          Minimum number of executable transaction slots guaranteed per account
   
    --txpool.globalqueue value          (default: 1024)                    ($GETH_TXPOOL_GLOBALQUEUE)
          Maximum number of non-executable transaction slots for all accounts
   
    --txpool.globalslots value          (default: 5120)                    ($GETH_TXPOOL_GLOBALSLOTS)
          Maximum number of executable transaction slots for all accounts
   
    --txpool.journal value              (default: "transactions.rlp")      ($GETH_TXPOOL_JOURNAL)
          Disk journal for local transaction to survive node restarts
   
    --txpool.lifetime value             (default: 3h0m0s)                  ($GETH_TXPOOL_LIFETIME)
          Maximum amount of time non-executable transaction are queued
   
    --txpool.locals value                                                  ($GETH_TXPOOL_LOCALS)
          Comma separated accounts to treat as locals (no flush, priority inclusion)
   
    --txpool.nolocals                   (default: false)                   ($GETH_TXPOOL_NOLOCALS)
          Disables price exemptions for locally submitted transactions
   
    --txpool.pricebump value            (default: 10)                      ($GETH_TXPOOL_PRICEBUMP)
          Price bump percentage to replace an already existing transaction
   
    --txpool.pricelimit value           (default: 1)                       ($GETH_TXPOOL_PRICELIMIT)
          Minimum gas price tip to enforce for acceptance into the pool
   
    --txpool.rejournal value            (default: 1h0m0s)                  ($GETH_TXPOOL_REJOURNAL)
          Time interval to regenerate the local transaction journal

   VIRTUAL MACHINE

   
    --vmdebug                           (default: false)                   ($GETH_VMDEBUG)
          Record information useful for VM and contract debugging

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