generate_library_contents(1)

📦 version 1.72_release+6.a11b6777660b, in opensuse-leap 16.0

🌸 NAME 🌸

Okay bestie, welcome to generate_library_contents(1) — a User Commands manual page for the utility that generates the lib_contents.* files from device.conf ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Two moods, no cap:

generate_library_contents -h|--help -- print help usage and exit, or
generate_library_contents [OPTIONS]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Where OPTIONS are from:

  • -C, --config-dir=DIR — sets the config directory; defaults to @CONF_PATH@ 🎀
  • -D, --dest-dir=DIR — sets the destination directory; defaults to . 📁
  • -f, --force — writes over existing library_contents.* files if needed 💥

This script is the one that creates the library_contents.* files from the device.conf file. Usually it does its thing at system installation time, but you can absolutely call it to regenerate those files if device.conf has changed 🔁. Iconic behavior, honestly.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Written by Mark Harvey. Updated by Lee Duncan. Love that for them 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

It needs a glow-up: more user friendly and more verbose. And maybe it should be integrated with generate_device_conf(1) — just a thought 👀

📬 REPORTING BUGS 📬

Report bugs to <markh794@gmail.com> 📬

Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Legal tea, served hot ☕

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Go check out device.conf(5), make_vtl_media(1), library_contents(5), vtlcmd(1), vtllibrary(1), vtltape(1), edit_tape(1), and generate_device_conf(1) 🫶

That’s the tea: mhvtl 1.72_release+6.a11b6777660..., dated May 2025 — bye bestie! 🫶✨

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