DAILYSTRIPS-UPDATE(1)

📦 version 1.0.28, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 DAILYSTRIPS-UPDATE 💖

okay bestie so this is the manual page for dailystrips-update, a lil script from the General Commands Manual section. it grabs updated dailystrips definitions for you. and uh. we need to talk about it. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

dailystrips-update — download updated dailystrips definitions

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dailystrips-update [OPTIONS] DAYS

🚨 WARNING 🚨

okay so. first warning. this script operates on the assumption that the development version of strips.def is the latest and best one. unfortunately, at the time of this writing (August, 2007), upstream development seems to have ceased, so using this script will likely give you a strips definition that's more out-of-date than the one already included in the distribution. 😭

🚨 WARNING 🚨 (yes, another one, i'm sorry)

because of all that above ☝️, as of November 2009, dailystrips-update has been neutered to exit immediately on execution. and it's expected that it will be removed in a future version of this package. 💀

bestie this thing is literally a zombie. it does nothing now. rip.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

the dailystrips-update script exists to automatically retrieve updated strip definitions from a central server — which means no more manually downloading and installing new versions of the whole entire program. iconic in theory. 👑

it is recommened that the dailystrips-update script be run before each execution of the main dailystrips program. (yes, that's spelled "recommened" in the original, we don't fix, we just vibe.) the script has provisions to only check for updates if the current file has reached a certain age, which maximizes efficiency and should let users run the update script before each execution of dailystrips without overtaxing the update server. 💅

🌈 USAGE 🌈

operation is straightforward, fr fr. simply execute dailystrips-update and the updated definitions will be saved to ~/.dailystrips-updates.def, which will automatically be loaded by the main dailystrips program. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -q, --quiet — turn off progress messages
  • -v, --verbose — turn on extra progress information, and it overrides -q
  • --proxy host:port — use the specified HTTP proxy server (this overrides the environment proxy, if one is set)
  • --proxyauth user:pass — set the username and password for the proxy server
  • --noenvproxy — ignore the http_proxy environment variable, if it's set
  • --retries NUM — when downloading items, make NUM attempts instead of only once
  • --updates FILE — save updates to FILE instead of ~/.dailystrips-updates.def
  • --minage NUM — skip downloading updates if the local file is less than NUM seconds old
  • -V, --version — print version number
  • -h, --help — show summary of options

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

dailystrips(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Rene Weber <rene_debmaint@public.e-mail.elvenlord.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💅 this page was brought to you by the June 25, 2004 era of DAILYSTRIPS-UPDATE(1) — vintage, iconic, and extremely retired. periodt. 🎀✨

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