q4wine-cli(1)

💖 q4wine-cli — the Q4Wine Manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so welcome to q4wine-cli(1), part of the Q4Wine Manual 💅 this is the console utility for wine applications and prefixes management, and honestly? she's iconic.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

q4wine-cli — console utility for wine applications and prefixes management.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

q4wine-cli [KEY] ...
q4wine-cli -p <prefix_name> [-d <dir_name>] -i <icon_name>
q4wine-cli -p <prefix_name> -b <windows_binary_path> [args]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

q4wine-cli is part of the Q4Wine project, no cap. She gives you a whole console interface to the Q4Wine database and its core functions. terminal girlies, this one's for you 🫶

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

here's the summary of options, bestie — every single one, we're not skipping a thing:

• -ps, --procs — outputs the Wine process list for the current prefix, or for all prefixes, and then dips. exit, bye 💨
• -p, --prefix — sets the current prefix name
• -d, --dir — sets the current directory name
• -i, --icon — sets the current icon name
• -cd, --cdimage — sets the cd image name
• -b, --binary — sets the path to the Windows binary to execute with the current prefix settings
• -k, --kill — sends a -9 term signal to the current prefix process, or to all prefixes' processes 💀 dramatic but necessary
• -pl, --prefixlist — outputs all existing prefix names and exits
• -dl, --dirlist — outputs all existing dir names for the current prefix and exits
• -il, --iconlist — outputs all existing icon names for the current prefix/directory and exits
• -cl, --cdlist — outputs the list of all cd images and exits
• -ml, --mountlist — outputs all mounted media for the current prefix or all prefixes and exits
• -m, --mount — mounts a cd image or drive for the current prefix and exits
• -u, --umount — unmounts a cd image or drive for the current prefix and exits
• -h, --help — displays help and exits
• -v, --version — outputs version information and exits

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🎀 EXIT STATUS 🎀

0 if OK, or -1 if serious troubles 😭

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🌈 FILES 🌈

• /usr/bin/q4wine — the Q4Wine main gui program
• /usr/bin/q4wine-cli — the Q4Wine command line interface program
• /usr/bin/q4wine-helper — the Q4Wine runner helper program
• /usr/lib/q4wine — directory containing Q4Wine's shared libraries
• $HOME/.config/q4wine — directory containing Q4Wine config, icons, database and temporary files.

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

Thanks to all:

Q4Wine is available thanks to the work of many to all people, who was involved in the development process, testing, bugreporting, packaging or translation creation. for a full listing of the authors, please see the file AUTHORS in the top-level directory of the source distribution. the way that this is a whole community effort 😭🫶

Created by:

Oleksii S. Malakhov (brezerk) <brezerk at gmail.com>

• Project maintainer, lead developer, web site designer and developer, project documentation, support, etc. ;)

main character energy fr fr 👑

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Q4Wine can be distributed under the terms of the GPLv3 license. a copy of the license is in the file LICENSE in the top-level directory of the source distribution.

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⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

the most recent public version of wine can be downloaded from <https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/download/>

the latest snapshot of the code may be obtained via GIT — for information on how to do this, please see <https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/download/#git>

Q4Wine, development headquarters, is at <https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua> — this website contains a great deal of information about Q4Wine. go read it bestie 📚✨

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🐛 BUGS 🐛

if you find a bug in Q4Wine please report it to <brezerk at gmail.com> or directly to the Q4Wine bug tracker at <https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4wine/>

not me asking you to file a bug report but like… please do 🙈 she can't fix herself

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

q4wine(1), q4wine-helper(1), wine(1), wineserver(1)

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💅 this was Q4Wine 1.4 Manual, dated 13 Apr 2025, and it's the q4wine-cli(1) page — stay hydrated, read your manpages, slay 🎀🦋💖