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I am new to Etherium, using Ubuntu CLI ,I was wondering how to properly manage accounts. I am trying to simply list the accounts I've created using the following syntax:

geth account list

Found at the following resource: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Managing-your-accounts But the CLI returns the following info:

INFO [03-28|08:58:21] Maximum peer count ETH=25 LES=0 total=25

How do I return a list of accounts I've created? Better yet, a list of accounts and status (locked or unlocked)? Thank you for your help!

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  • Possible duplicate of ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/4159/16048 – Ayushya Mar 28 '18 at 17:32
  • Before flagging duplicates, please understand the content of both posts. The question you refer to is regarding unlocking an account. My question is with regard to listing accounts that have been created. Yes, it would be nice to display the account status in the list, but not necessary. – Matt Mar 28 '18 at 18:00
  • I was doubtful, that's why "possible" duplicate :P But now I understand, its not – Ayushya Mar 28 '18 at 18:25
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Attach to your running geth process either by running in your current directory (where geth.ipc exists)

geth attach ./geth.ipc

Or running on the same machine

geth attach http://localhost:8545

And you will be presented with a console. Run in the console eth.accounts and your accounts should be listed

> eth.accounts
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Other than the method proposed by @cleanunicorn, you can also do:

geth --datadir $HOME/path/to/datadir account list

Make sure to set datadir to the same folder where geth is running and your keystore is located.

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