bup-features(1)

💅 bup-features(1) — the vibe check for your bup

okay bestie, so you know how you wanna know what your bup install is actually made of? This is that. Manual page, bup-features, section 1 of the General Commands Manual. Let's get into it. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

bup-features — report the current status and capabilities of bup itself

like. bup looking in the mirror. selfie moment. 📸

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bup features

that's it. no flags, no args, no drama. she's low maintenance and she eats every time. 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

bup features spills the tea about your current bup installation — like, the one actually sitting on your machine right now, not some hypothetical one.

So what's in the report? Things like:

• which version of the Python interpreter is being used 🐍
• whether command line editing is supported by bup ftp (yes, that's a real thing, and yes it matters)
• whether POSIX ACLs can be saved and restored

honestly it's giving "diagnostic baddie". run it, screenshot it, send it to your group chat. 🎀

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

okok so here's what it looks like when you actually run it:

$ bup features
bup 0.31~a7ff2d5b8c12b24b97858aad1251d28c18f8c1e1
source a7ff2d5b8c12b24b97858aad1251d28c18f8c1e1 2020-07-05 14:54:06 -0500
    Python: 3.7.3
    Command line editing (e.g. bup ftp): yes
    Saving and restoring POSIX ACLs: yes
....

no cap, she's thorough. ✨ (and yeah, that .... at the end is literally in there — the output keeps going, we're just not showing all of it here.)

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• bup-version(1)

sibling energy. go say hi. 🫶

💜 BUP 💜

Part of the bup(1) suite. it's a whole family, and every one of them is iconic. 👑

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

• Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>

shoutout to Rob, main character of this manpage fr fr. 💖

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that's the whole page bestie, hope you ate 🍓 and hey — this was Bup 0.34, dated 2026-09-01, from the bup-features(1) era. mwah. 💅✨