[Ethereum] How to remove accounts using the Geth console

They are exactly the same. My guess is that the web3 umbrella collector is defined in the geth console to allow pasting in web3 based code and have it work instead of requiring you to strip out web3 from all the calls.

It happens. The reason is the datadir being used for creating the account. for

geth account new

the default datadir is used is "~/.ethereum/keystore"(it's on my ubuntu OS).

You can go to that directory and see. There shall be one file of format "UTC--2017-02-13T07-14-57.563336682Z--your account". this is the account, which gets created when you do

geth account new

if you're running your private chain using geth, then you must have defined your own datadir while starting the geth console. so, when you do

personal.newAccount()

it goes into the "datadir/keystore".

Now, if you want the account created by

geth account new

to come under the

eth.accounts

You simply do cp from the "~/.ethereum/keystore" to "datadir/keystore". you shall be able to see the accounts in the

eth.accounts

in your console.

Now, if you want that your all future accounts, create using

geth account new

must be visible when you do

eth.accounts

in geth console, then you must do this:

geth --datadir "**path to your data dir**" account new

This shall create all the accounts, as per your private chain datadir. and you shall be able to see all the accounts.

Hope it helps.

Thanks