osinfo-db-path(1)

✨ osinfo-db-path — the manual page, bestie edition ✨

okay so real quick — this is osinfo-db-path(1), part of the Osinfo DB Tools fam, and she's literally just here to tell you where your databases live 🗺️💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

osinfo-db-path — report database locations. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic honestly.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

osinfo-db-path [OPTIONS...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So osinfo-db-path will report the paths associated with the standard osinfo database locations, and there are three of them, each with main character energy of its own:

• system — this is the primary system-wide database location, intended for use by operating system vendors distributing database files in the native package format.
• local — this is the secondary system-wide database location, intended for use by system administrators wishing to provide an updated database for all users.
• user — this is the user private database location, intended for use by unprivileged local users wishing to provide applications they use with an updated database.

Now here's the vibe check 👑: if you run it with a privileged account (ie root), the local database location gets reported by default. otherwise? the user location gets reported. no cap, that's just how she picks.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --user — overrides the default behaviour to force reporting of the user database location. you want user, you get user 💫
• --local — overrides the default behaviour to force reporting of the local database location.
• --system — overrides the default behaviour to force reporting of the system database location.
• --dir=PATH — overrides the default behaviour to force reporting of the custom directory PATH.
• --root=PATH — prefixes the database location with the root directory given by "PATH". this one's highkey useful when you're wishing to report paths relative to a chroot environment or equivalent 🧚

ngl the pattern here is "override the default behaviour" — that's the whole personality of this tool and we respect it 🫶

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

The exit status will be 0 if the requested path was reported, or 1 if the arguments were invalid. so like... zero means slay, one means bestie what did you type 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

"osinfo-db-export(1)", "osinfo-db-import(1)" — go read those next, iykyk 📚

🍓 AUTHORS 🍓

Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> — we stan 💜

⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright (C) 2016 Red Hat, Inc.

🔥 LICENSE 🔥

"osinfo-db-import" is distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL v2+ license. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

that NO warranty bit is in ALL CAPS for a reason bestie — please read it fr fr 🙈

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