STRESS(1)

💅 STRESS(1) — the girlies' guide to catching episodic failures ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the stress manual page, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and honestly? she's short but she's mighty. 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

stress — catches episodic failures 🫶

like. that's it. that's her whole job. and she does it flawlessly, no cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

stress

that's the whole vibe. no flags required, no arguments, just stress. iconic behavior honestly 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so listen. the stress utility is intended for catching of episodic failures. episodic failures, bestie — the kind that show up once, ruin your whole afternoon, and then refuse to reproduce when you actually go looking for them. 😭

the way it works is: it runs a given process in parallel in a loop and collects any failures. so it just keeps throwing your process at the wall over and over, in parallel, forever-ish, and whenever something breaks, it notes it down. main character energy fr fr. 🔥

it's giving "I will find that flaky test" and she always does. periodt.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• stress -help — run this for more details 👑

ngl that's literally the entire options section. she's not hiding anything from you. iykyk. 🍓

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). 🌈

shoutout to Michael, an absolute legend, we love a documentation king. 💜

and that's the whole page, babe. she was born 2015-07-24, and she's still out here catching your flaky failures with grace and zero drama. go run stress, go catch those episodic failures, and go slay. mwah. 💅✨🦋🎀