printtoconsole command

[chu_11]

hello!

in  regtest  what does printtoconsole in the command 'bitcoind -regtest -daemon -printtoconsole' do? what is its function ?

[ranochigo]

Bitcoind, by default, will always write the log into a file, that is called debug.log.

By using this flag, all the logs will be sent to the console instead of debug.log. You don't have to open debug.log to check anything regarding the client in this case.