byobu-shell(1)

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version 7.20 · 2 versions
, in nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu stonking

✨ byobu-shell ✨

okay bestie, welcome to your little guide for byobu-shell 💖 this is part of the byobu fam, and honestly? it's giving "simple but iconic" 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

byobu-shell — prints the message of the day and launches a shell 🐚✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, byobu-shell is a simple script, no cap. what does it do? two things, and it does them flawlessly 💅

  1. it prints the message of the day, which lives at /etc/motd 📜
  2. it launches a shell 🐚

and that's literally it. short. sweet. main character energy 👑

🧚 which shell tho??

okay here's the tea ☕

  • if $SHELL exists, that is the one that gets invoked 🫶
  • but if $SHELL is not there? no worries bestie, it falls back to /bin/sh 💖
fr fr, keep that fallback in mind — $SHELL gets first dibs, /bin/sh is the backup plan 💀

🌈 where to find us

https://byobu.org 🔥 go off, the site is right there 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

so this manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@byobu.org> for Ubuntu systems — but like, other people can totally use it too, it's not gatekept 🌍

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document and the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation. slay 💅

and if you're the kind of person who actually wants to read the whole license (respect, honestly 🫡), the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found here:

  • /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on Debian/Ubuntu systems 🐧
  • /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL on Fedora systems 🎩
  • or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt 🌐
ngl, GPLv3 is a whole mood and it ate, periodt 📖✨

byobu · 11 Feb 2009 — and that's the whole vibe bestie, written by the byobu girlies and dropped way back on 11 Feb 2009 🕰️💖 mwah, go print your motd and open a shell, you got this 🫶🎀

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