BINSTATS(1)

💖 BINSTATS(1) — the Debian Manual glow-up 💖

okay bestie, welcome to binstats, section 1 of the Debian manual ✨ this is the girl who displays statistics about programs and libraries 🦋 and honestly? she ate.

🌸 NAME 🌸

binstats — display statistics about programs and libraries 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

lowkey the whole vibe in one block, no cap:

binstats [-b[inaries]=bindirs] [-d[ebug]] [-s[kip-debian]
[-f[ile]=logfile] [-l[ibraries]=libdirs] [-m[anuals]=mandirs]
[-p[ath]=path] [-t[emp]=tmpdir]

binstats -h[elp]

binstats -v[ersion]

✨ OPTIONS ✨

every single one of them, bestie, we are NOT skipping a single flag 🫶

• -binaries bindirs — bindirs is a quoted list of whitespace delimited directories where programs should be searched for 🔍 like, tell her where the programs live and she'll go look.
• -debug — store temporary files in the current directory and do not remove them when finished 🙈 it's giving "leave no trace but make an exception", so you get to snoop at the temp files after. iconic for debugging.
• -skip-debian — skip the Debian tests that analyse installed packages, even if this is a Debian system 💀 so even on Debian she'll just... not do the Debian thing.
• -file logfile — output the report to logfile instead of standard output 📝 redirect the whole vibe into a file.
• -help — display a usage summary and exit 👋
• -libraries libdirs — libdirs is a quoted list of whitespace delimited directories where libraries should be searched for 📚
• -manuals mandirs — mandirs is a quoted list of whitespace delimited directories where manpages should be searched for 🎀
• -path path — use the specified path instead of the value of the environment variable PATH 🌈
• -temp tmpdir — store temporary files in tmpdir instead of the value of the environment variable TMPDIR, if defined, or /tmp ⭐
• -version — output version information and exit 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Peter Chang <Peter.Chang@nottingham.ac.uk>. This manual page was originally written by Matej Vela <vela@debian.org> 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one's brought to you by the Debian Project, dated October 31, 1999 — yeah she's vintage, she's a classic, she's still slaying. mwah 💅✨🎀