---
title: "wallet-sweep"
description: "Preview or broadcast a sweep of every confirmed backing-wallet UTXO to a single destination address."
canonical: https://wavelength.lightning.engineering/cli/wallet-sweep/
---

> Docs index: https://wavelength.lightning.engineering/llms.txt

# wallet-sweep

Previews, or with `--broadcast` publishes, a sweep of every confirmed backing-wallet UTXO to a single destination address. Boarding outputs are excluded; use [`ark sweep`](/cli/ark/) for those. Without `--broadcast` the command returns a preview of the selected inputs, fee, and net amount without leasing inputs or broadcasting.

```bash
wavecli wallet-sweep --destination bcrt1...
wavecli wallet-sweep --destination bcrt1... --broadcast
```

## Flags

| Flag            | Default | Description                                                                              |
| --------------- | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--destination` | (none)  | Required. On-chain destination address for the swept funds.                              |
| `--broadcast`   | `false` | Publish the sweep. Omitted means preview only.                                           |
| `--fee-rate`    | `0`     | Explicit fee rate in sat/vByte. `0` estimates from the chain backend at `--conf-target`. |
| `--conf-target` | `0`     | Confirmation target for fee estimation when `--fee-rate` is `0`.                         |

## Example

```bash
wavecli --no-tls wallet-sweep --destination bcrt1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh
```

```json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "outpoint": "4b2e9f1a7c3d5e6f8091a2b3c4d5e6f70819a2b3c4d5e6f708192a3b4c5d6e7f:0",
      "amount_sat": 100000
    }
  ],
  "total_input_sat": 100000,
  "estimated_fee_sat": 480,
  "net_amount_sat": 99520,
  "fee_rate_sat_per_vbyte": 2,
  "can_broadcast": true,
  "txid": "",
  "failure_reason": ""
}
```

When run with `--broadcast`, `txid` carries the published sweep transaction id.

## Underlying RPC

Calls [`WalletService.SweepWallet`](/api/wallet/sweep-wallet/).