Compactly display a bitcoin-cli fee estimate in satoshis/Byte, sat/B, date time stamp. Change the 6 to the desired number of confirmations.
Display in btc/KB unit of measure:
printf %g "$(bccli estimatesmartfee 6 "ECONOMICAL" | jq .feerate)";printf " btc/KB estimated feerate for 6 confirmations\nMultiply by 100,000 to get sat/B\n";
Two settings for estimate mode are "ECONOMICAL". "CONSERVATIVE" is the same as "UNSET"
# jq is a json filter.
sudo apt-get install jq
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