#!/bin/bash
touch <.../somewhere/logfile.log>
LOGFILE=<.../somewhere/logfile.log>
{#script text} > $LOGFILE

#!/bin/bash
#This is a script for creating a test network consisting of 2 bitcoin  regtest peers.
#Step 1: creating data directories

DATADIR="/home/$USER/bctestnet1"
rm -rf "$DATADIR"
mkdir -p "$DATADIR"/{node0,node1,node2,node3}
#Step 2: creating configuration files
touch "$DATADIR"/{node0,node1,node2,node3}/bitcoin.conf
chmod +x "$DATADIR"/{node0,node1,node2,node3}/bitcoin.conf
#Step 2.1: writing configurations to file
for i in {0..3}
do
echo 'regtest=1
rpcuser=rt
rpcpassword=rt
port='`expr 12000 + $$ % 55536 + $i`'
rpcport='`expr 13000 + $$ % 55536 + $i + 1`'' > "$DATADIR"/node$/bitcoin.conf
done
#Step 3: Starting bitcoinds separately from each directory with corresponding configuration file
for i in {0..3}
do
bitcoind -daemon -datadir="$DATADIR"/node$i/ &
done
sleep 60s
for i in {0..3}
do
echo "Mined blocks by node$i:"
bitcoin-cli -datadir="$DATADIR"/node$i/ setgenerate "true" `expr 101 + $i`
for i in {0..3}
do
echo "Balance of node$i:"
bitcoin-cli -datadir="$DATADIR"/node$i/ getbalance
done
done

#!/bin/bash

<command> <arguments> >> $LOGFILE &>
<command> <arguments> >> $LOGFILE &>