Using curl to inspect transactions

bash_curl

$ curl -X POST --data \
    '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_getTransactionByHash", \
    "params":["0x314e0246cfc55bc0882cbf165145c168834e99924e3ff7619ebd8290e713386d"], \
    "id":123}' localhost:8545

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":123, "result":{
"blockHash":"0x42ea1578c23b159186853961dfbdfcdec6b40d23d8f1d971827412bc6948386b",
"blockNumber":"0x3dfb88",
"From":"0xcaf82fcb3a0323566c0f306684376e3e66d6284b",
# this is the Bancor Purchase contract address
"To":"0x77a77eca75445841875ebb67a33d0a97dc34d924",
# converting hex to decimal, this is 50 gwei, making it a 2$ fee on half-million dollar transaction
"gasPrice":"0xba43b7400",
"hash":"0x314e0246cfc55bc0882cbf165145c168834e99924e3ff7619ebd8290e713386d",
# converting hex to decimal, this is 2*10^21, which is 2000 ETH, or half-million USD
"value":"0x6c6b935b8bbd400000",
...}}