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I've been trying to use sendmany on my local installation of Bitcoin-qt (version 0.7.0) from the Windows command prompt. I've seen examples but when I try them all I get is a JSON parsing error. I figure that on Windows the input needs to be escaped in a different way than on Linux.

How do I pass a JSON argument to bitcoind from the Windows command prompt?

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    Any chance we could get an example of what you're trying to pass and how you've currently attempted to escape it?
    – David Perry
    Nov 20, 2012 at 21:38
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    Unbelievable. I had already seen bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54879.0 and unsuccessfully tried to replicate it; it turns out I made an error in visually reproducing it. The question is still valid though and I'll take the liberty of answering it.
    – Meni Rosenfeld
    Nov 21, 2012 at 5:54
  • Sadly, my sendmany woes are not over yet, though that is irrelevant to this question.
    – Meni Rosenfeld
    Nov 21, 2012 at 5:57

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The important part is that strings should be enclosed in triple double-quotation marks. For example:

bitcoind sendmany "" {"""1ELvnrA6PhUyDBS6iR25K1Xx4xXL6VMfJX""":0.001,"""1NX3R5Le4c1y9E316NPMze7aEmCXjpCY58""":0.001}
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  • Hello, I googled this answer, is the triple quotation a windows thing or is it needed in bash, too?
    – Karel Bílek
    Feb 17, 2014 at 17:48
  • @KarelBílek: I don't remember. Let us know what you find.
    – Meni Rosenfeld
    Feb 17, 2014 at 19:52

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