PTS_HELP(1)

✨ PTS_HELP(1) — the pts_help glow-up ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the AFS Command Reference 💖 this is the manual page for pts_help — yes it's a command page inside the pts world, and it's about to be your new fave because it's literally just "tell me how pts works" energy. no gatekeeping here 👑

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pts_help — displays help for pts commands

like. that's it. that's the whole job. and it slays at it 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pts help [-topic <help string>+] [-help]

pts h [-t <help string>+] [-h]

yes it's got a short form, we love a low-effort baddie <italic>h</italic> 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕ the pts help command shows you the complete online help entry — that's the short description plus the syntax statement, bestie, both of them — for each command operation code you name in the -topic argument.

and if you just… don't give a -topic at all? no problem, icon. then the output gives you the first line (name + short description) of the online help entry for every single pts command. like a lil menu of everything. obsessed ✨

psst 👀 if what you actually want is to hunt down every pts command whose name or short description contains some keyword, that's a whole different vibe — go use the pts apropos command for that.

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -topic <help string>+ — names each command you want the full online help entry for. here's the important bit, bestie: drop the pts part of the command name, only give the operation code (so say "membership", not "pts membership"). and if you leave this argument out entirely? the output gives you a quick lil description of every pts command instead. cute, right?
• -help — prints the online help for this command. and fr fr, every other valid option gets ignored when you use this one. it's the main character, periodt 👑

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🌈 OUTPUT 🌈

the online help entry for each pts command is built from two or three lines, and here's the breakdown:

• the first line names the command and gives a quick lil description of what it does.
• the second line lists the aliases for the command — only if there are any, no fake ones 💅
• the final line, which starts with the string "Usage", lists the command's options in the prescribed order. these online help entries use the same symbols as the reference pages in this document (brackets, bestie — brackets 🎀).

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

so this command right here displays the online help entry for the pts membership command:

% pts help membership
pts membership:  list membership of a user or group
aliases: groups
Usage: pts membership -nameorid <user or group name or id>+
[-cell <cell name>] [-noauth] [-force] [-help]

see?? aliases in the middle, Usage at the bottom, everything exactly where it should be. we love a structured queen 👑

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👑 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 👑

None

you need literally zero privileges. open to everyone. no velvet rope, no bouncer, just vibes 🌸

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• pts(1)
• pts_apropos(1)

go read those too, bestie, iykyk 📚✨

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.

this documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. it was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell. shoutout to the whole crew 🫶

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okay that's the whole page, no notes, you're basically a pts expert now 💅 this was the OpenAFS version from 2026-07-27 — thanks for coming to my ted talk, go forth and pts help something, bestie 🌈🎀💖