bdep-help(1)

✨ bdep-help(1) — the "bestie pls explain" command ✨

okay so this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and it's all about bdep-help, aka the command that tells you about the other commands. Very meta. Very iconic. Let's go 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

bdep-help — show help for a command or help topic

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bdep help [command | topic]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So basically? You run this and it shows you the detailed help for whatever command or topic you asked about. 🫶

And if you didn't specify anything at all? No worries bestie, it just gives you a lil summary of all the available commands and topics instead. Main character energy fr fr ✨

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👑 COMMON OPTIONS 👑

Here's the rundown of the common options, girlies. If you want the full-length director's cut, that's chillin' over in bdep-common-options(1) 💜

• -v — Print essential underlying commands being executed. (like, the receipts 📜)
• -V — Print all underlying commands being executed. (the WHOLE receipts, no filter 💀)
• --quiet, -q — Run quietly, only printing error messages. 🤫
• --verbose level — Set the diagnostics verbosity to level between 0 and 6. (pick your chaos level 🎚️)
• --stdout-format format — Representation format to use for printing to stdout.
• --jobs, -j num — Number of jobs to perform in parallel. (multitasking queen behavior 👑)
• --progress — Display progress indicators for long-lasting operations, such as network transfers, building, etc. (we love a loading bar ✨)
• --no-progress — Suppress progress indicators for long-lasting operations, such as network transfers, building, etc.
• --diag-color — Use color in diagnostics. 🌈
• --no-diag-color — Don't use color in diagnostics. 🙈
• --bpkg path — The package manager program to be used for build configuration management.
• --bpkg-option opt — Additional option to be passed to the package manager program.
• --build path — The build program to be used to build packages.
• --build-option opt — Additional option to be passed to the build program.
• --curl path — The curl program to be used for network operations.
• --curl-option opt — Additional option to be passed to the curl program.
• --pager path — The pager program to be used to show long text.
• --pager-option opt — Additional option to be passed to the pager program.
• --options-file file — Read additional options from file. 📂
• --default-options dir — The directory to load additional default options files from.
• --no-default-options — Don't load default options files. (going rogue, respect 🫡)

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🎀 DEFAULT OPTIONS FILES 🎀

Peep bdep-default-options-files(1) for the whole overview of the default options files, bestie.

But for the help command specifically? It only goes looking for these files in the predefined directories (home, system, etc) — nowhere else, no cap — and if it finds them, it loads them in the order listed:

bdep.options
bdep-help.options

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💀 BUGS 💀

Found a bug? Don't suffer in silence, send those bug reports to the users@build2.org mailing list. They wanna know fr fr 📬

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🧚 COPYRIGHT 🧚

Copyright (c) 2014-2024 the build2 authors.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the MIT License.

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! you understood it, you ate, periodt 💅✨

this was bdep-help, page 1 of the bdep manual, version bdep 0.17.0, dated June 2024. slay 🦋