How to achieve common tasks with ethdo

Find out what ethdo can do

To find a list of topics that ethdo can carry out with the ethdo help command.

If you want more detailed information about the commands in a topic, they can be seen with the ethdo help <topic> command, for example:

ethdo help wallet

The wallets you can currently access can be seen with the ethdo wallet list command.

New wallets can be created with the ethdo wallet create command. Each wallet has to have a unique name, for example:

ethdo wallet create --wallet="My wallet"

Additional options are available to decide the type of wallet and encryption.

A wallet can be backed up with the ethdo wallet export command. This creates an encrypted backup of the wallet, for example:

ethdo wallet export --wallet="My wallet" --exportpassphrase="export secret" >export.dat

Note that by default the wallet backup is printed to the console, hence the >export.dat to redirect it to a file.

A backed up wallet can be restored with the ethdo wallet import command, for example:

ethdo wallet import --importdata=export.dat --importpassphrase="export secret"

In this example the wallet to be imported is being read from the export.dat file.

Note that if a wallet with the same name already exists it cannot be imported.

Details of the location of a wallet can be found with the ethdo wallet info command, for example:

ethdo wallet info --verbose --wallet="My wallet"

This will provide, amongst other information, a Location line giving the directory where the wallet information resides.