PLOOKUP(1)

💖 PLOOKUP(1) — the OpenPMIx girlies' guide 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to plookup, straight out of the OpenPMIx manual, section 1. this is the little tool that goes and fetches the values of keys that somebody posted with the PMIx_Publish API. it's giving detective energy fr fr 🔍✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

plookup — lookup the value of keys posted using the PMIx_Publish API

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

plookup [options] <KEY1>,<KEY2>,...

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🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

so what does she actually do? plookup performs a PMIx_Lookup for each of the provided keys, and then returns the results. that's it, that's the whole vibe. you hand her a list of keys, she goes and finds what they're holding, no cap 💅

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

plookup accepts the following options:

• -h | --help <arg0> — Show help message. If the optional argument is not provided, then a generalized help message similar to the information provided here is returned. If an argument is provided, then a more detailed help message for that specific command line option is returned. so like, no arg = the overview you're reading rn, arg = the deep dive on that one flag 🎀
• -v | --verbose — Enable debug output. she will yap. and honestly? we love that for her 😭
• -V | --version — Print version and exit.
• --pmixmca <arg0> <arg1> — Set MCA parameter value
• --pid <arg0> — PID of the daemon to which we should connect (int => PID or file:<file> for file containing the PID
• --tmpdir <arg0> — Set the root for the session directory tree
• --timeout <arg0> — Max number of seconds to wait for data to become available
• --wait — Wait for data to become available if not immediately present

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

Returns 0 upon success, or else a non-zero error code. Prints any returned values to stdout.

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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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and that's the whole page babes ✨ Aug 04, 2026, brought to you by the OpenPMIx girlies, and yeah — PLOOKUP(1) ate and left no crumbs 💖🎀🦋