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💖 NAME 💖

/sendfile — the Profanity /sendfile command, bestie. Yes this is the man(1) page for it, and yes we're gonna get you fluent in it in like ninety seconds. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so. /sendfile sends a file. Groundbreaking, I know. 😭 But the way it does it is lowkey iconic: it uses XEP-0363 HTTP file transfer, which is the fancy grown-up protocol-approved way to yeet a file at somebody instead of praying your client and theirs agree on something.

And here's the part that makes it highkey slay: if you happen to be in an OMEMO session, the file gets encrypted too, via XEP-0454. So not only is it going where it's going, it's going there locked down. Privacy? Obsessed. 🔥👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/sendfile <file>

That's it. One argument. We love a minimalist queen. 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • <file> — the path to the file. That's the whole vibe. Give it a path, it sends the file at that path. 🦋

🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

Send literally /etc/hosts, because why not, it's a file and you have feelings about it:

/sendfile /etc/hosts

Or send the sweetest cat in your camera roll, which is obviously the real reason anyone installs a chat client:

/sendfile ~/images/sweet_cat.jpg

Periodt. 🌈⭐

No cap, this page is genuinely short — that's not me skipping the boring parts, there just aren't any. 💜

We are running the Profanity XMPP client, version 0.18.2, and this little page was dated 2026-06-08. Go send a file to your bestie, you've earned it. 🍓💖🎀

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