Send a Transaction with the Flow CLI

The Flow CLI provides a command to sign and send transactions to any Flow Access API.

flow transactions send

Example Usage

# Submit a transaction to Flow Testnet
> flow transactions send <filename>
    --signer my-testnet-account \
    --host access.testnet.nodes.onflow.org:9000
    
ID	 f23582ba17322405608c0d3da79312617f8d16e118afe63e764b5e68edc5f211
Status	 SEALED
Payer	 a2c4941b5f3c7151
Events

In the above example, the flow.json file would look something like this:

{
  "accounts": {
    "my-testnet-account": {
      "address": "a2c4941b5f3c7151",
      "keys": "12c5dfde...bb2e542f1af710bd1d40b2"
    }
  }
}

Arguments

Filename

• Name: filename
• Valid inputs: Any filename and path valid on the system.

The first argument is a path to a Cadence file containing the transaction to be executed.

Flags

Code

• Flag: --code

⚠️ No longer supported: use filename argument.

Results

• Flag: --results

⚠️ No longer supported: all transactions will provide result.

Signer

• Flag: --signer
• Valid inputs: the name of an account defined in the configuration (flow.json)

Specify the name of the account that will be used to sign the transaction.

Host

• Flag: --host
• Valid inputs: an IP address or hostname.
• Default: 127.0.0.1:3569 (Flow Emulator)

Specify the hostname of the Access API that will be used to execute the command. This flag overrides any host defined by the --network flag.

Network

• Flag: --network
• Short Flag: -n
• Valid inputs: the name of a network defined in the configuration (flow.json)

Specify which network you want the command to use for execution.

Filter

• Flag: --filter
• Short Flag: -x
• Valid inputs: a case-sensitive name of the result property.

Specify any property name from the result you want to return as the only value.

Output

• Flag: --output
• Short Flag: -o
• Valid inputs: json, inline

Specify the format of the command results.

Save

• Flag: --save
• Short Flag: -s
• Valid inputs: a path in the current filesystem.

Specify the filename where you want the result to be saved

Log

• Flag: --log
• Short Flag: -l
• Valid inputs: none, error, debug
• Default: info

Specify the log level. Control how much output you want to see during command execution.

Configuration

• Flag: --config-path
• Short Flag: -f
• Valid inputs: a path in the current filesystem.
• Default: flow.json

Specify the path to the flow.json configuration file. You can use the -f flag multiple times to merge several configuration files.