PLAKAR-CAT(1)

💅 PLAKAR-CAT(1) — the plakar-cat girlies' guide 🎀

ok so bestie, welcome to plakar-cat from the Plakar manual (section 1, General Commands Manual, iykyk) — literally the command that reaches into your snapshots and pulls out file contents so you can finally see them. no cap, it's giving "peek behind the curtain" energy ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

plakar cat [-decompress] [-highlight] snapshotID:path ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: plakar cat prints out the contents of path inside your Plakar snapshots, straight to standard output. 💖 It can also decompress compressed files, and — if you want — it'll slap syntax highlighting on there based on the file type. Obsessed.

The options are as follows:

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -decompress — if you set this, Plakar will attempt to decompress application/gzip files. attempt being the key word, bestie 🫶
• -highlight — applies syntax highlighting to the output, based on the file type. it's giving aesthetic ✨ and honestly? slay.

🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

The plakar-cat utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. so like, zero means we ate, anything bigger means something went off 😭

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

Display a file's contents from a snapshot:

$ plakar cat abc123:/etc/passwd

Display a file with syntax highlighting:

$ plakar cat -highlight abc123:/home/op/korpus/driver.sh

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

plakar(1), plakar-backup(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie 💅 this cutie came from the Debian manual, dated May 5, 2026 — PLAKAR-CAT(1), main character energy fr fr 🌟🦋💜