PATTRS(1)

✨ NAME ✨

pattrs — Display information about supported attributes.

okay so real talk, this is a page straight outta the OpenPMIx manual, section 1, and it's giving ✨utility✨. It tells you literally everything about the attributes that the client, server, and tool interfaces of the PMIx library you're using can support. iykyk 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pattrs [options]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

pattrs spills all the tea about the attributes supported by the client, server, and tool interfaces of the PMIx library that's currently being used. no cap, it's just here to info-dump so you don't have to guess 🫶

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

pattrs accepts the following options, bestie — every single one of them:

• -h | --help <arg0> — Shows the help message. If you don't pass the optional argument, you get a generalized help message, basically the same vibe as all this info right here. But if you do pass an argument, you get a more detailed help message specifically about that command line option. obsessed with the specificity fr fr 👑
• -v | --verbose — Enables debug output. all the extra chatter, turn it up 🔊
• -V | --version — Prints the version and exits. bye ✌️
• --pmixmca <arg0> <arg1> — Set MCA parameter value.
• --do-not-connect — Do not connect to a server. just, like, don't 🚫
• --uri <arg0> — Specify the URI of the server to which we are to connect, or the name of the file (specified as file:filename) that contains that info.
• --namespace <arg0> — Namespace of the daemon to which we should connect.
• --pid <arg0> — PID of the daemon to which we should connect (int => PID, or file:<file> for a file containing the PID).
• --system-server-first — First look for a system server and connect to it if found. peek first, then commit 🫣
• --system-server — Connect to a system-level server.
• --tmpdir <arg0> — Set the root for the session directory tree.
• --wait-to-connect <arg0> — Delay specified number of seconds before trying to connect. a lil nap first 😴
• --num-connect-retries <arg0> — Max number of times to try to connect.
• --client <arg0> — Comma-delimited list of client functions whose attributes are to be printed (function or all).
• --server <arg0> — Comma-delimited list of server functions whose attributes are to be printed (function or all).
• --tool <arg0> — Comma-delimited list of tool functions whose attributes are to be printed (function or all).
• --host <arg0> — Comma-delimited list of host functions whose attributes are to be printed (function or all).
• --client-fns — List the functions supported in this client library.
• --server-fns — List the functions supported in this server library.
• --tool-fns — List the functions supported in this tool library.
• --host-fns — List the functions supported by this host environment.

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👑 EXIT STATUS 👑

Returns 0 for successful completion, or a non-zero error code if it doesn't go off without a hitch. The command outputs the requested information to stdout. so clean, so readable, we love to see it 🌈

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

Examples of using this command.

See also: openpmix(5) <#man5-openpmix>

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🍓 Copyright 🍓

2014-2026, OpenPMIx Community

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k that's the whole page bestie 💜 go forth and pattrs responsibly. this one was shipped with the OpenPMIx crew's blessing, dropped on Aug 04, 2026, and it's still serving PATTRS(1) energy. mwah 🧚✨