how to transfer an eosio.token token

Goal

Transfer token created by eosio.token contract

Before you begin

• Install the currently supported version of cleos

• You are going to transfer a token created by eosio.token contract and eosio.token contract has been deployed on the network which you are connected to

• Understand the following:

  • What is a transaction
  • Token transfers are irrevertable

Steps

Assume you would like to transfer 0.0001 SYS token to an account called bob from an account called alice, execute the following:

cleos transfer alice bob "0.0001 SYS" "Hodl!" -p alice@active