CAPRINT(1)

✨ CAPRINT — Capability Ambient Print ✨

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is caprint, a lil tool from the General Commands Manual section that peeks at the ambient capabilities of a running program. no cap, it's giving "who gave this process extra powers" energy 👑

🌸 NAME 🌸

caprint — Capability Ambient Print 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

caprint [ OPTIONS ] [ pid ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, caprint shows you the ambient capabilities of a running program, periodt. you can pass a pid as an optional parameter if you wanna snoop on some other process 👀 — but if you don't, it's not deep, caprint just shows the capabilities of caprint itself. main character energy, honestly ✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

caprint accepts the following options, and yes bestie, we're going through all of them 🫶

• -l, --long — run in verbose mode. caprint shows the bitmask for every single capability the process owns, plus the resulting mask of the capability set. it's the full lore dump, no skimming 📖
• -c, --compact — emit a compact output: one single line, a comma separated list of the capability short names. and the slay part? this output can literally be copied as a capability list for the command cado(1) 🔥 copy-paste icon behavior
• -p, --prompt — okay this one is so smart. this option exists to give users a suitable shell prompt that warns them about the extra capabilities granted to that shell (and about the extra danger if they run the wrong commands 😭). for example, you can set the bash prompt by editing the .bashrc in the user's home directory:

if which caprint >&/dev/null ; then
  ambient=$(caprint -p)
fi

PS1='\u@\h:\w:\$$ambient'

• -h, --help — print a short usage banner and dip. that's it, that's the whole thing 💫

⚠️ real talk: those extra capabilities are extra danger. if your shell is holding powers it shouldn't, running the wrong command hits different (derogatory). the -p prompt is there to remind you before things get messy 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

cado(1), capabilities(7),

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 brought to you by VirtualSquare Labs, dated June 23, 2016 — oldie but a goodie, fr fr. go check your capabilities and stay safe out there 🎀✨🦋