INCUS.FILE.CREATE(1)

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💖 incus-file-create — create files & dirs in ur instances ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Incus command line client manual page 💅 this one's all about incus file create, and yeah it's a little one but she's a baddie. let's get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

incus-file-create — Create files and directories in instances 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

incus file create [:]/ [] [flags]

periodt. that's the shape of it 🫶

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Description:

Create files and directories in instances 💖

like. that's literally the whole thing. it makes files, it makes dirs, and it does it inside ur instances. the way that it just does that 😭👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -p, --create-dirs[=false] — go ahead and create any directories that are necessary for this to work 🌈
  • -f, --force[=false] — force creating files or directories, no questions asked 🔥
  • --gid=-1 — set the file's gid when it gets created 👑
  • --mode="" — set the file's perms when it gets created 🔐
  • -t, --type="file" — the type to create. ur options are file, symlink, or directory — pick ur fighter ⭐
  • --uid=-1 — set the file's uid when it gets created 🫶

🧚 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🧚

these ones come from the parent command, so they're not even unique to this baddie, but they still show up to the party 💜

  • --debug[=false] — show all the debug messages, literally all of them 💀
  • --explain[=false] — if the command is valid, explain its parsed arguments instead of actually running it. so useful ngl 🙈
  • --force-local[=false] — force using the local unix socket 🍓
  • -h, --help[=false] — print help 📖
  • --project="" — override the source project 🎀
  • -q, --quiet[=false] — don't show progress information. for the girlies who want silence 🫶
  • --sub-commands[=false] — use this with help or --help to view sub-commands 👀
  • -v, --verbose[=false] — show all information messages 🗣️
  • --version[=false] — print version number ⭐

💖 EXAMPLE 💖

okay so here's the tea, two little demos for u bestie:

incus file create foo/bar

To create a file /bar in the foo instance. iconic. she's just a file 🦋

incus file create --type=symlink foo/bar baz

To create a symlink /bar in instance foo whose target is baz. slay ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • incus-file(1) — go read that one too, iykyk 💜

💀 HISTORY 💀

24-Sep-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra 🎀

okay that's the whole page bestie, no cap 💅 Auto generated by spf13/cobra, Sep 2026, and we're repping the Incus command line client manual page. now go forth and create ur files 💖✨🦋

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