LINE(1)

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version 2.41.1 · 2 versions
, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💖 LINE(1) — the line girlies' manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the little manpage for line, a User Command. she's tiny, she's iconic, she does exactly one thing and she does it flawlessly. let's get into it ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

line — read one line. that's it. that's the whole gig. one line. periodt 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

line

no flags, no arguments, no drama. you just run her. main character energy fr fr 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the vibe: the line utility copies one line (up to a newline) from standard input over to standard output. like a little relay race but the baton is text 🏃‍♀️

some things you need to know, no cap:

  • it always prints at least a newline — even if it's got nothing to show you, it's still serving you that newline 💖
  • it returns an exit status of 1 on EOF or read error. so if you hit end-of-file or something goes sideways with the read, she comes back with a 1. don't panic, that's just her way of telling you 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • read(1p) — go check on her too, iykyk 🫶

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

found a bug? bestie, please don't suffer in silence 🙈 drop it in the issue tracker:

https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues

the maintainers will literally love you for it 🥰

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

the line command is part of the util-linux package, which you can download from the Linux Kernel Archive at:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/

go get your girl 👑⭐

and that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, and absolutely slaying 🧚💜

this rewrite is serving util-linux 2.41.1, dated 2025-06-23 — so if you're quoting her, cite her right 💖🎀🌸
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