GRUB-RENDER-LABEL(1)

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version 2.12 · 14 versions
, in ubuntu noble

✨ grub-render-label 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the grub-render-label page — it lives in the User Commands corner of the manual (section 1, iykyk), and it's genuinely one of those tiny little tools that does exactly one iconic thing. Let's get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

grub-render-label — generate a .disk_label for Apple Macs. fr fr that's the whole job, and it ate 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

grub-render-label [OPTION...] [OPTIONS]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Render Apple .disk_label. that's it, that's the vibe — it takes your text and your colors and your font and spits out the lil label image that Macs like to see 👑

here's every single flag, no cap, nothing skipped:

  • -b, --bgcolor=COLOR — use COLOR for background. yes bestie, you get to pick the backdrop 💜
  • -c, --color=COLOR — use COLOR for text. the actual lettering, the main character energy 🌈
  • -f, --font=FILE — use FILE as font (PF2). lowercase note: it's a PF2 file, don't come at me with a ttf 🙈
  • -i, --input=FILE — read text from FILE. like, instead of typing it out yourself 🍓
  • -o, --output=FILE — set output filename. Default is STDOUT ⭐ (so if you don't say anything, it just yeets the result at your terminal)
  • -t, --text=STRING — set the label to render. this is the actual words, the moment, the text 🫶
  • -v, --verbose — print verbose messages. for when you want the tool to yap at you 💀
  • -?, --help — give this help list. the classic cry for help, but make it helpful 💅
  • --usage — give a short usage message. the tl;dr version ✨
  • -V, --version — print program version. so you know exactly which one you're dealing with 🔥
little rule to remember bestie: mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. same energy both ways, periodt.

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, tell the people: report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. 🧚 they wanna know, fr fr.

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

the full documentation for grub-render-label is maintained as a Texinfo manual — yes, the old-school lore 📚. if the info and grub-render-label programs are properly installed at your site, this command:

info grub-render-label

should give you access to the complete manual. go read it, it's giving reference material 💖

and that's the page!! this gorgeous lil thing comes to you from GRUB 2.12-1ubuntu7.3, dated March 2025 — big slay to whoever shipped it, mwah 💋🎀🦋

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