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Command Line Interface

The cashc command line interface is used to compile CashScript .cash files into .json artifact files. These artifacts can be imported and used by the JavaScript SDK or other libraries / applications that use CashScript. For more information on this artifact format refer to Artifacts.

Installation

You can use npm to install the cashc command line tool globally.

npm install -g cashc

Usage

The cashc CLI tool can be used to compile .cash files to JSON artifact files.

Usage: cashc [options] [source_file]

Options:
  -V, --version        Output the version number.
  -o, --output <path>  Specify a file to output the generated artifact.
  -h, --hex            Compile the contract to hex format rather than a full artifact.
  -A, --asm            Compile the contract to ASM format rather than a full artifact.
  -c, --opcount        Display the number of opcodes in the compiled bytecode.
  -s, --size           Display the size in bytes of the compiled bytecode.
  -?, --help           Display help