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I have changed the configuration directory for bitcoind.
However when I make a bitcion-cli request:
bitcoin-cli getblockcount
I get an error about RPC credentials using ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin/conf
So for me to actually run the command with the correct config and authnetication cookie I have to specify the configuration directory explicitly every time. Is there a way to make it implicit?
bitcoin-cli -conf=/media/btc/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf getblockcount
581510
In this case I would create an alias?
$ alias BCLI="bitcoin-cli -conf=/media/btc/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf"
$ BCLI getblockcount
On Windows you may use doskey.
alias for setting default options: alias bitcoin-cli="bitcoin-cli -conf.... If one ever wants to call the non-alias command, it's just a matter of prefixing the command name with a backslash to prevent alias expansion: $ \bitcoin-cli ...
