How to use “lockunspent” in bitcoin core wallet console?

Question

Try to use the Lockunspend RPC in bitcoin core wallet console. But always get wrong, and google it can't find answer.

My input is:

lockunspent false "[{"txid":"c3fa34606ae3ea416ff640d97414ef6a0a8afcebfbe2c60403ad60c0d961f04c","vout":0}]"

Is anyone can teach me where I am wrong? Thanks

What is the error that you get? – Andrew Chow♦ Nov 4 '18 at 18:30 — Andrew Chow♦, Nov 4 '18 at 18:30

MCCCS · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-02 13:49:27Z

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The problem is, you should to escape the inner quotes:

lockunspent false "[{\"txid\":\"c3fa34606ae3ea416ff640d97414ef6a0a8afcebfbe2c60403ad60c0d961f04c\",\"vout\":0}]"

answered Oct 2 '18 at 13:49

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Thanks. But it's not work. If with bitcoin-cli, your format should be work. But my problem is how to use is with bitcoin core wallet console. It seems that don't need to escape the inner quotes for console. – yrm23 Oct 2 '18 at 14:08
It should work, have you tried? – MCCCS Oct 2 '18 at 14:27
10:37:01 lockunspent false "[{\"txid\":\"c3fa34606ae3ea416ff640d97414ef6a0a8afcebfbe2c60403ad60c0d961f04c\",\"vout\":0}]" 10:37:01 Invalid parameter, expected unspent output (code -8) – yrm23 Oct 2 '18 at 14:37
@yrm23 It's clearly not unspent. – Ken Sharp Apr 11 '20 at 14:17

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mikeytown2 · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-27 00:15:29Z

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Try double quoting

lockunspent false '[{"\"txid\"":"\"c3fa34606ae3ea416ff640d97414ef6a0a8afcebfbe2c60403ad60c0d961f04c\"","\"vout\"":"0"}]'

answered Mar 27 '19 at 0:15

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