bash command

[brunozisterer]

Question: Is there a bash command to produce priv. btc keys ?

[Justin00]

if your using the main client their are sum commands you can run to do a bunch of things
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls_list

You could put them into bash scripts i suppose..

[tiktoc]

Do you mean generate a new address, or get a private key from a address already in the wallet?

generate a new address in the default account wallet is on the command line
if on unix

Code:

bitcoind getnewaddress ""

to get the private key of a address

Code:

bitcoind listaddressgroupings

Find the address you are looking for in the list and copy it.

Code:

bitcoind dumpprivkey <paste the  copied address here>

You can do the same in the debug window in bitcoin-qt