LXC.FILE.CREATE(1)

💅 NAME 🎀

lxc-file-create — the glow-up command that creates files and directories inside your instances, bestie. No cap.

Oh and hey, real quick: this whole page lives in the LXD - Command line client(1) manual, so like… that's the family it belongs to. 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lxc file create [:]/ [] [flags]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so listen. lxc file create literally creates files and directories in instances. That's the whole vibe. That's the job. Iconic, low-effort, does exactly what it says on the tin. 💖

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• -p, --create-dirs[=false] — creates any directories necessary along the way, so you don't gotta mkdir by hand like a peasant ✨
• -f, --force[=false] — forces the file or directory into existence. It's giving main character energy, ngl 💅
• --gid=-1 — sets the file's gid on create. Default is -1, fr fr
• --mode="" — sets the file's perms on create. Default is empty, just sayin'
• --type="file" — the type to create: file, symlink, or directory. Defaults to "file" 🎀
• --uid=-1 — sets the file's uid on create. Default -1, iykyk

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🌸 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌸

These bad boys come from the parent command — not technically hers, but she's borrowing them and they slay:

• --debug[=false] — shows all the debug messages, every last one 🙈
• --force-local[=false] — force using the local unix socket
• -h, --help[=false] — prints help, the classic
• --project="" — override the source project. Default is empty
• -q, --quiet[=false] — don't show progress information, for when you simply cannot with the noise 💀
• --sub-commands[=false] — use this with help or --help to view sub-commands
• -v, --verbose[=false] — shows all the information messages. She's chatty, we love her
• --version[=false] — prints the version number 👑

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💜 EXAMPLE 💜

Okay bestie, examples are the whole point, so pay attention:

lxc file create foo/bar
        To create a file /bar in the foo instance.
lxc file create --type=symlink foo/bar baz
        To create a symlink /bar in instance foo whose target is baz.

See? First one: a plain file. Second one: a symlink pointing at baz. Ate. 🍓

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• lxc-file(1) — go read the parent page, she raised this one 🧚

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

• 22-Aug-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra

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Heads up bestie: this page was auto generated by spf13/cobra, so don't come for me about the formatting, I'm just the messenger 💀

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And that's the whole page, periodt! 💅✨ Big kiss from the LXD - Command line client(1) manual, dated Aug 2026, auto generated by spf13/cobra — mwah, take care of her, she's iconic 🎀🫶🌟