PTERM(1)

📦 version 3.0.14, in arch rolling

💅 PTERM(1) — the PMIx Reference Run Time Environment era 💅

okay bestie, so this whole page lives under the PMIx Reference Run Time Environment umbrella (that's the manual name, iykyk) — and it's literally just one tiny glorious command. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

pterm — terminate an instance of the PRRTE DVM 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

shell$ pterm ...options...

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. you run it from your shell, you throw some options at it, ...options... style 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like — pterm terminates an instance of the PMIx Reference Runtime Environment (PRRTE) distributed virtual machine (DVM). periodt. it's the "okay we're done here" button for your DVM 👑

and if you want the extensive help documentation for this command? it's all served up through:

pterm --help [topic]

you just pass it a topic and it's giving full tutorial mode ✨

but — and this is the part where I hold your hand — at least for now, that content is not available in man page form 😭 like, none of it. the man page you're reading right now is not the full story, it's the trailer.

and here's the cute part: pull requests to add all the content (via repeatable infrastructure) would be greatly appreciated 🥺 like genuinely, if you're the kind of person who writes repeatable infrastructure, the maintainers would be obsessed with you. main character energy. do it for the culture 💜

fr fr, the "see also" is right here so you don't have to go hunting:

2003-2026, The PRRTE Community — all the love and legal-ness to them 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie! no cap, it was a short one 🍓

⭐ signed, sealed, delivered: Jun 23, 2026 — from the PMIx Reference Run Time Environment corner of the universe, with copyright held down by The PRRTE Community (2003-2026). slay 💅✨

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