PLAKAR-CREATE(1)

💅 PLAKAR-CREATE 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to plakar-create — a page from the General Commands Manual, and honestly? it's giving "small but mighty." this is the lil command that births a whole new Plakar repository for you 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

plakar-create — create a new Plakar repository 🌸

like, brand new. fresh out the box. main character energy only.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

plakar create [-plaintext]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one command, one optional flag, infinite possibilities 🦋

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The plakar create command creates a new Plakar repository at the specified path, which defaults to ~/.plakar. so if you don't say where you want it, it just quietly moves into your home directory like it pays rent there 💀 (it does, kind of — that's the default, no cap).

The options are as follows:

• -plaintext — disable transparent encryption for the repository 🔓 if you specify this, the repository will not use encryption. no shade, but like… bestie, please think about it first? your data is gonna be sitting out here in the open. this is the "no filter, no encryption" option and it is exactly as exposed as that sounds 🙈

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✨ ENVIRONMENT ✨

• PLAKAR_PASSPHRASE — repository encryption password 🔐 this is the secret little password your repo uses for encryption. keep it safe, keep it cute, keep it out of your group chat fr fr.

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✨ EXIT STATUS ✨

The plakar-create utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

so 0 = slay, we ate 💅 and anything above 0 = something went sideways, go check the error 😭

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• plakar(1)
• plakar-backup(1)

go read those next, iykyk 🫶

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okay and before you go — this iconic little page came from the Debian manual, dated May 5, 2026. that's the source and version, bestie, noted with love. now go create that repository 👑✨