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I started a new ethereum private blockchain and let it run. Now i need to interact with it while it is running. I have to open a new console and use the command attach with the path of the geth.ipc file but i can't find it. Can anyone help me please? I'm new in geth and now i'm following this guide https://hackernoon.com/heres-how-i-built-a-private-blockchain-network-and-you-can-too-62ca7db556c0 Thank you so much.

Giordano Galli
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I always add --ipcpath "/home/your_folder/geth.ipc when run the geth command to start the network. If you did not declare this, i guess it is located (as mentioned in the website you cited) in geth attach /path_to_your_data_directory/YOUR_FOLDER/geth.ipc.

In my case i just need to type geth attach without declaring where the geth.ipc is located in the second terminal and it will open the Geth Javascript Console.

Kevin
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The geth.ipc file is located in your datadir. Your datadir is where you specified in starting your private net using geth command. For example,

geth --datadir ./privatechain

The geth.ipc will be located in ./privatechain/geth.ipc.

Wei-Tsung Su
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Came to this question after I had similar problem. In my case, I had not specified the datadir so the approach I used was to find it in the commentary at the start of the client running. You should see something like this:

INFO [localdate|localtime] IPC endpoint opened                 url=\\.\pipe\geth.ipc
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