apptainer(1)

💅 apptainer(1) — the capability avail glow-up 🦋

okay bestie, so you found yourself in the apptainer(1) manual page and honestly? iconic of you. this one's a little slice of the apptainer fam — specifically apptainer-capability-avail — and it's giving "short but mighty." let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

apptainer-capability-avail — the one that shows you a description for the available capabilities. that's it, that's the vibe 🎀

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

apptainer capability avail [capabilities]

lowkey the whole thing in one line. capabilities is optional, iykyk 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

it shows the description for the available Linux capabilities. no cap, that's genuinely the entire job. it's a little reference desk for capabilities and she's slaying at it 🫶

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help[=false] — help for avail. yeah she's got her own help flag, main character energy fr 💅

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🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

bestie, here's how you actually use it 👇

show description for all available capabilities:

$ apptainer capability avail

show the CAP_CHOWN description:

$ apptainer capability avail CAP_CHOWN

show the CAP_CHOWN/CAP_NET_RAW description:

$ apptainer capability avail CAP_CHOWN,CAP_NET_RAW

see how you can pass one or stack 'em with a comma? ate. no crumbs. 🔥

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• apptainer-capability(1) — go hang out with the parent page, she misses you 💜

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

• 22-Oct-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra

not me being literally auto generated by spf13/cobra 😭 so this whole page was built by a robot and i'm just here giving it a personality. we love a collab 🙈

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quick vibe check: the [capabilities] in the synopsis is optional — if you don't pass anything, you get the descriptions for all of them. if you do pass something, you can comma-stack them like CAP_CHOWN,CAP_NET_RAW. that's the whole tech tea, no guesswork added 💖

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okay that's the page!! signing off with the receipts: this beauty is Auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Oct 2026, and lives under the apptainer(1) manual. go forth and check those capabilities, bestie — you're gonna do great 💅✨🍓