MDI(1)

💅 MDI — send G-code from your terminal to the running LinuxCNC, bestie ✨

okay so this is mdi from the LinuxCNC manual (section 1, terminal commands, iykyk) 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mdi — send G-code commands from the terminal straight to the running LinuxCNC instance 🔥

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mdi

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no drama, just vibes 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so mdi sends G-code commands to LinuxCNC. that's the whole job, and it does it gorgeously 🫶

when you run the command it starts up an environment where G-code commands get sent to the interpreter and the machine feedback gets displayed back at you. it's giving "direct line to the machine, no middleman energy" 👑

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

you can send a single command and exit like this:

 send a single command and exit
 mdi m2 s1400

 interactive session
 $mdi
 MDI> m3 s1000
 MDI> G0 X100
 MDI> ^Z
 $stopped

or you can hang out in an interactive session, where you keep typing commands at the MDI> prompt, and you bail out with ^Z 🌈

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• LinuxCNC(1) 💖

and fr fr, there is so much more info about LinuxCNC and HAL in the LinuxCNC and HAL User Manuals, which live at /usr/share/doc/LinuxCNC/ 📚✨

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💀 BUGS 💀

None known at this time. not a single one. clean sheet. no cap 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this man page was written by andypugh, as part of the LinuxCNC project 💜

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🍓 REPORTING BUGS 🍓

found something cursed? report bugs at https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues — the devs wanna hear it 🧚

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright © 2020 andypugh.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 🚨 (yes that's the all-caps part, it means it, bestie — no warranty, periodt.)

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