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Create a BIP16 pay-to-script-hash address from a script.

$ bx script-to-address --help

Usage: bx script-to-address [-h] [--config VALUE] [--version VALUE]      
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Info: Create a BIP16 pay-to-script-hash address from a script.           

Options (named):

-c [--config]        The path to the configuration settings file.        
-h [--help]          Get a description and instructions for this command.
-v [--version]       The desired pay-to-script-hash address version,     
                     defaults to 5.                                      

Arguments (positional):

SCRIPT               The script to use in the address. Multiple tokens   
                     must be quoted. If not specified the script is read 
                     from STDIN.

Example 1

$ bx script-to-address "dup hash160 [89abcdefabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabba] equalverify checksig"

3F6i6kwkevjR7AsAd4te2YB2zZyASEm1HM

Example 2

--version 196 (testnet)

$ bx script-to-address -v 196 "dup hash160 [89abcdefabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabba] equalverify checksig"

2N6evAVsnGPEmJxViJCWWeVAJCvBLFehT7L

Example 3

piped commands

$ bx script-decode 76a91489abcdefabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabba88ac | bx script-to-address

dup hash160 [89abcdefabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabba] equalverify checksig
3F6i6kwkevjR7AsAd4te2YB2zZyASEm1HM