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I would like to monitor incoming transactions for a single address using

bitcoin-cli listreceivedbyaddress 1 false false <myaddress>

My problem is the returned array will become longer and longer and I cannot output the last 10 incoming transactions using the arguments. I don't want to rely on any online service, rather I want to use the CLI.

Can this be done?

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You could use the -walletnotify startup option for bitcoind/bitcoin-qt. This will execute a program whenever the wallet receives a transaction. So you can write a program which is executed for every transaction and looks for ones which have outputs for the addresses you want. Then this program can do whatever to notify you.

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  • I'm glad for your answer. I was hoping I could give an additional argument to -walletnotify for inline commands, but it seems I have to modify the conf to contain a call to a script. I.e. walletnotify=/home/scripts/transaction.sh %s. Apparently, the flag only activates the feature. Your answer helped me to get on the right track, though! :)
    – Martin Braun
    Dec 19, 2021 at 13:55
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    @MartinBraun you can use double quotes for inline commands IIUC
    – user103136
    Jan 6, 2022 at 6:50

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