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importwallet
============

``importwallet "filename"``

Imports keys from a wallet dump file (see dumpwallet). Requires a new wallet backup to include imported keys.

Argument #1 - filename
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

**Type:** string, required

The wallet file

Examples
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.. highlight:: shell

Dump the wallet::

  bitcoin-cli dumpwallet "test"

Import the wallet::

  bitcoin-cli importwallet "test"

Import using the json rpc call::

  curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "importwallet", "params": ["test"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/