mshortname(1)

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version 4.0.49 · 7 versions
, in alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ mshortname — it's giving "short name reveal" 💅

okay bestie, so this is a page from mshortname(1), aka the General Commands Manual section 1, and it's literally just here to spill the tea on what a file's short name is. 🎀

🌸 Name 🌸

mshortname — shows short name of a file 🦋

💀 Note of warning 💀

not me having to tell you this but… this manpage was automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation, and it may not be entirely accurate or complete. 😭 See the end of this man page for details, bestie. No cap.

💖 Description 💖

So the mshortname command is used to display the short name of a file. That's it, that's the job. 👑

Syntax:

mshortname files

The shortname is displayed as it is stored in raw format on disk, without any character set conversion. fr fr, no glow-up, no translation, just the raw bytes as they sit. ✨

🫶 See Also 🫶

  • Mtools' texinfo doc 📖

🌈 Viewing the texi doc 🌈

Okay so here's the situation: this manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation. But the process is only approximative, and some items — like crossreferences, footnotes and indices — are lost in this translation process. 😭 Indeed, these items have no appropriate representation in the manpage format. Moreover, not all information has been translated into the manpage version. So I strongly advise you to use the original texinfo doc. See the end of this manpage for instructions how to view the texinfo doc. 💅

  • To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the following commands:
./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi
  • To generate a html copy, run:
./configure; make html

A premade html can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/manual/mtools.html

  • To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode), run:
./configure; make info

The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html. 🌸 Indeed, in the info version certain examples are difficult to read due to the quoting conventions used in info. 🙈

and that's the whole vibe, bestie. this page is from mtools-4.0.49, dated 14Jun25 — slay, stan, and go read the texinfo doc for the real real. 👑💜

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