How to find a transaction on the grin blockchain

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How to find a transaction on the grin blockchain:
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If you have the slate file, you can get the shared transaction id with:
    cat payment_slate.json | jq .id

The transaction id will look like this:
    6d7e9c04-18b4-4b8f-b3a3-b52bd6e9b18a

You can then get the status from your wallet:
    grin-wallet -p passwd txs | grep 6d7e9c04-18b4-4b8f-b3a3-b52bd6e9b18a | awk '{print $1}'

If you dont have the slate file, you can just run "grin-wallet -p passwd txs" and identify the transaction id based on the amount.

Then you can use that id number to get the transaction record:
    grin-wallet -p passwd txs -i 93

The output of that command will have a "Transaction Log" which tells you if the transaction was "Confirmed?".
It will also have a "Wallet Outputs" section which includes the "Output Commitment" and tell you which "Block Height" the transaction was recorded in the blockchain.

    Transaction Log - Account 'default' - Block Height: 259672
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Id  Type         Shared Transaction Id                 Creation Time        Confirmed?  Confirmation Time    Num.    Num.     Amount      Amount   Fee   Net         Tx
                                                                                                                  Inputs  Outputs  Credited    Debited        Difference  Data
    ===========================================================================================================================================================================
     93  Received Tx  6d7e9c04-18b4-4b8f-b3a3-b52bd6e9b18a  2019-07-15 17:15:23  true        2019-07-15 17:24:11  0       1        3.84735083  0.0      None  3.84735083  None
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Wallet Outputs - Account 'default' - Block Height: 259672
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Output Commitment                                                   MMR Index  Block Height  Locked Until  Status   Coinbase?  # Confirms  Value        Tx
    ============================================================================================================================================================
     09b06173069a874924f4f4b372cbf71db08657080170f3e6cabeeb6016599de866  None       259664        0             Unspent  false      9           3.847350830  93
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------





An alternate method without using the wallet:

If you have the slate, you can get the output with:
    cat payment_slate.json | jq .tx.body.outputs[0].commit

The output will look like this:
    09b06173069a874924f4f4b372cbf71db08657080170f3e6cabeeb6016599de866

Go to the block explorer, and enter the outpout in the search input field:

    Output 09b0617306...
    Output Type         Transaction
    Commit              09b06173069a874924f4f4b372cbf71db08657080170f3e6cabeeb6016599de866
    Occurrences         1
    Block Height        259664
    Spent               False





An alternative to using an online blockchain explorer is to query a grin core node directly:
    curl 127.0.0.1:3413/v1/chain/outputs/byids?id=09b06173069a874924f4f4b372cbf71db08657080170f3e6cabeeb6016599de866
    [
      {
        "commit": "09b06173069a874924f4f4b372cbf71db08657080170f3e6cabeeb6016599de866",
        "height": 259664,
        "mmr_index": 3004079
      }
    ]