BLESS(1)

💖 BLESS(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual section for bless, and honestly? she's a tiny little page with main character energy. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

bless — the girl whose whole job is making HFS+ filesystems bootable on EFI-based Apple hardware 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bless filename

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one argument, no drama 🌸

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so bless makes the file filename run as the bootloader on HFS+ filesystems on Apple hardware when you're using EFI. that's literally the whole gig and she does it flawlessly, no notes 👑

but bestie, listen, and listen closely: bless does NOT support setting EFI boot variables. it's not giving that. if that's what you need, go use efibootmgr for that instead. periodt. 💀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• mkfs.hfsplus(1) — for when you need the HFS+ filesystem to exist in the first place 🦋
• efibootmgr(1) — the one who actually handles EFI boot variables, since bless said not me 🙈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! literally iconic, short and sweet, ate and left no crumbs ✨💖 this was BLESS(1) from the General Commands Manual — same title up top, same title down at the bottom, no version number or date in sight, so consider this your cute little sign-off instead 🎀🌈⭐