FS_WSCELL(1)

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💖 FS_WSCELL(1) — aka fs wscell 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the AFS Command Reference ✨ this one's from the AFS command reference manuals and it's short, sweet, and honestly kind of adorbs. it's about figuring out which cell your machine calls home 🏠

🌸 NAME 🌸

fs_wscell — returns the name of the cell to which a machine belongs 🦋

like, it tells you where your little computer lives. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fs wscell [-help]

fs ws [-h]

that's it. that's the whole thing. iconic 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

the fs wscell command returns the name of the local machine's home cell. that's the vibe. you run it, it tells you which cell your machine belongs to, and you go about your day. periodt 💖

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -help — prints the online help for this command. and listen, all other valid options are ignored</> when you use it, so don't bother stacking flags, she's not listening, she's helping 📖💅

🌈 OUTPUT 🌈

the output displays the client's current home cell — which means it shows you the contents of the local /etc/openafs/ThisCell file at the time when the client was started. yes bestie, at the time the client was started, not right now, okay? she's showing you a memory, not a live feed 🫶

the format is exactly:

This workstation belongs to cell '<cellname>'

with the <cellname> placeholder being, yk, your actual cell name 🦋

💜 EXAMPLES 💜

so say you're on a machine in the Example Organization cell. you run it, and here's what you get:

% fs wscell
This workstation belongs to cell 'example.org'

ate. no crumbs. 💅✨

🔥 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 🔥

None. literally none. anyone can run this, bestie, it's giving open access energy 👑🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read those too, they're the squad 🌸

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this documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. it was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell. respecting the elders fr fr 🙏✨

and that's the whole page bestie 🎀 this was OpenAFS, version dated 2026-07-27, and you've been reading FS_WSCELL(1) — stay nosy, stay curious, and go ask a machine where it lives 💖🦋💅

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