Send Signed Transaction with the Flow CLI

Updated: 2022/10/21 byMaxStalker

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How to send a signed Flow transaction from the command line

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

Use this functionality in the following order:

1. Use the build command to build the transaction.
2. Use the sign command to sign with each account specified in the build process.
3. Use this command (send-signed) to submit the signed transaction to the Flow network.

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flow transactions send-signed <signed transaction filename>

Example Usage

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> flow transactions send-signed ./signed.rlp
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Status		✅ SEALED
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ID		528332aceb288cdfe4d11d6522aa27bed94fb3266b812cb350eb3526ed489d99
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Payer		f8d6e0586b0a20c7
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Authorizers	[f8d6e0586b0a20c7]
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Proposal Key:	
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    Address	f8d6e0586b0a20c7
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    Index	0
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    Sequence	0
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No Payload Signatures
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Envelope Signature 0: f8d6e0586b0a20c7
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Signatures (minimized, use --include signatures)
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Events:	 None
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Code (hidden, use --include code)
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Payload (hidden, use --include payload)

Arguments

Signed Code Filename

• Name: signed transaction 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

Include Fields

• Flag: --include
• Valid inputs: code, payload

Specify fields to include in the result output. Applies only to the text output.

Exclude Fields

• Flag: --exclude
• Valid inputs: events

Specify fields to exclude from the result output. Applies only to the text output.

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.

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 Key

• Flag: --network-key
• Valid inputs: A valid network public key of the host in hex string format

Specify the network public key of the Access API that will be used to create a secure GRPC client when executing the command.

Network

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

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

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.

Version Check

• Flag: --skip-version-check
• Default: false

Skip version check during start up to speed up process for slow connections.