quill account-balance
Queries a ledger account for its balance.
Basic usage
The basic syntax for running quill account-balance commands is:
quill account-balance [flag] <account id>
Arguments
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
<account id> | The id of the account to query. Optional if a key is used. |
Flags
| Flag | Description |
|---|---|
--dry-run | Will display the query, but not send it. |
-h, --help | Displays usage information. |
-y, --yes | Skips confirmation and sends the message directly. |
Examples
The quill account-balance command is used to check the ICP balance of a particular NNS ledger account.
For example, to check the balance of the account 345f723e9e619934daac6ae0f4be13a7b0ba57d6a608e511a00fd0ded5866752, you would say:
quill account-balance 345f723e9e619934daac6ae0f4be13a7b0ba57d6a608e511a00fd0ded5866752
This will produce a response like
(record { e8s = 800_000_000 : nat64 })
"e8s" is a shorthand for meaning the number of 1e-8s, or one-hundred-millionths, of an ICP in integer form; this response must be divided by 100,000,000 to get the real balance, which in this case would be 8.0 ICP.
Remarks
As this is a query call, it cannot be executed on an air-gapped machine, but does not require access to your keys. You can use the quill public-ids command to get your account ID.
For more information about the ICP ledger, see The Ledger Canister.