man(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so welcome to the lsbom manual page, bestie — the header’s out here saying man(1), but the main character is lsbom and we’re keeping every detail 💅

lsbom lists the contents of a bill-of-materials file bom-file created by mkbom. That’s the whole assignment, and it ate ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lsbom [-bcdflmsx] [-p parameters] bom-file

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

lsbom lists the contents of the bill-of-materials file bom-file created by mkbom. No cap, that’s the core. 🫶

🦋 the flag tour 🦋

yes, -d shows up three times in the source — that’s literally what the page says, so it’s listed three times here too. I’m not editing the lore 💅

• -b — list block devices 🧱
• -c — list character devices 🔤
• -d — list directories 📁
• -d — list files 📄
• -d — list symbolic links 🔗
• -m — print modified times ⏰
• -s — print pathnames only 🏷️
• -x — suppress modes for directories and symlinks 🙈
• -p fFmMgutTsSc/lL012 — depending on the characters that follow, print only some of the information:
  • f — file name
  • F — file name with quotes (for example "/bin/bash")
  • m — file mode (permissions)
  • M — symbolic file mode
  • g — group id
  • u — user id
  • t — modification time
  • T — formatted modification time
  • s — file size
  • S — formatted file size
  • c — 32-bit checksum
  • / — user-id/group-id
  • l — link name
  • L — quoted link name
  • 0 — device type
  • 1 — device major
  • 2 — device minor

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go hang out with mkbom(1), ls4mkbom(1), and dumpbom(1) — the whole little reference squad 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

real talk: some non essential options listed above may not work as expected and have received very little testing. 😭 so yeah, lowkey proceed with caution, bestie.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

shoutout to Fabian Renn (fabian.renn@gmail.com) http://hogliux.github.io/bomutils — iconic behavior, fr fr ✨

later, bestie 🫶 — version 1.0, dated 19 April 2014 💜