direnv to manage signet, regtest, and testnet automatically via directories and environment variables.

clone this repo and copy it over to a new directory:

git clone https://github.com/josibake/bendir.git 
cp bendir my-cool-project

make sure you have direnv installed. after direnv is installed, you may need to run direnv allow the first time you cd into the project directory and again after each time you change the .envrc file. alternatively, you can whitelist these directories in your direnv config so that they are always trusted (not recommended)

once you have direnv setup, either compile or download your preferred bitcoin client version and place the bitcoind and bitcoin-cli binaries in the bin/ folder:

# replace this with whatever your bitcoin src directory is named
# or the location of the downloaded binaries
cp ~/bitcoin/src/bitcoind ~/my-cool-project/bin/
cp ~/bitcoin/src/bitcoin-cli ~/my-cool-project/bin/

after cd'ing into the directory, run:

init signet # can be one of mainnet, signet, testnet, regtest
bitcoind

you can now run bitcoin-cli commands. if you you want to switch networks, you can run wipe. this stops your node and resets the BITCOIN_NETWORK variable.

if you want to add a new command, you can write your alias as a script and place it in the aliases/ folder:

cat << EOF > aliases/my_cool_cmd
echo "my cool script!"
EOF

chmod +x aliases/my_cool_cmd
my_cool_cmd