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I have a Qt testnet3 node synched and running on my mac. In the terminal, when simply trying:
$ bitcoin-cli getinfo
or
$ ./bitcoin-cli getinfo
I get:
-bash: bitcoin-cli: command not found
Anyone know why the command could or would not be found? (server=1 in bitcoin.conf as well)
There is a bitcoin-cli available for OSX. I also ran into this issue, and it is because I missed one of the setup steps. Here they are for posterity!
Install Xcode:
$ xcode-select --install
Install Homebrew => https://brew.sh/
Clone the repo:
$ git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
Navigate into bitcoin directory, and run the autogen script:
$ cd bitcoin
$ ./autogen.sh
The autogen.sh script creates a set of automatic configuration scripts that will interrogate your system to discover the correct settings and ensure you have all the necessary libraries to compile the code.
Run the configure script:
$ ./configure
This will automatically discover all the necessary libraries and create a customized build script for your system. If all went well, the configure command will end by creating the customized build scripts that will allow us to compile bitcoind.
Compile the bitcoin source:
$ make
Install the executables on your system:
$ sudo make install
Default install location of bitcoind is /usr/local/bin. Confirm Bitcoin Core is installed:
$ which bitcoind
/usr/local/bin/bitcoind
$ which bitcoin-cli
/usr/local/bin/bitcoin-cli
Full disclosure this information worked for me, and it is from Andreas M. Antonopoulos' Mastering Bitcoin book!
It's as simple as running brew install bitcoin assuming you are on macOSX and have brew installed.
There it's no bitcoin-cli built in the dmg file for mac os. (Unless you compile it yourself, nor is there a bitcoind from my understanding) You can execute RPC commands using the built in options under the help -> debug / then click on the console tab in the os x client.
this should get you up and running with bitcoind on mac osx https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-osx.md
Best way to run Bitcoind on Mac
brew install bitcoin
One's installation done
bitcoind start working fine as expected
Brew download bitcoin source directory in following by default
/opt/homebrew/opt/bitcoin
simply run bitcoind --daemon to run the daemon with default configuration after which bitcoin data will be downloaded in :
/Users/user_name/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin
tail -f debug.log ---> check the logs
bitcoin-cli stop ---> stop the daemon
bitcoindis actually running?bitcoind(the daemon) does, though. So, you might want to try runningbitcoind -daemoninstead. I have no clue whether any of this is the same for Mac, though.