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 \
    --code MyTransaction.cdc \
    --signer my-testnet-account \
    --host access.testnet.nodes.onflow.org:9000

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

{
  "accounts": {
    "my-testnet-account": {
      "address": "f8d6e0586b0a20c7",
      "privateKey": "xxxxxxxx",
      "sigAlgorithm": "ECDSA_P256",
      "hashAlgorithm": "SHA3_256"
    }
  }
}

Options

Transaction Code

• Flag: --code,-c

Specify a path to a Cadence file containing the transaction script.

Signer

• Flag: --signer,s
• Valid inputs: the name of an account defined in 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: localhost:3569 (Flow Emulator)

Specify the hostname of the Access API that will be used to submit the transaction.

Results

• Flag: --results
• Valid inputs: true, false
• Default: false

Indicate whether to wait for the transaction to be sealed and display the result.

If false, the command returns immediately after sending the transaction to the Access API. You can later use the transactions status command to fetch the result.