S6-CAT(1)

🎀 S6-CAT(1) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to a page from the General Commands Manual — yes, that’s the manual name, folded in right here at the top. This one is all about s6-cat, and it’s giving tiny but iconic energy. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

s6-cat — copy stdin to stdout. Literally that’s the whole main-character job. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

s6-cat

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so s6-cat transfers data from stdin to stdout, until it receives EOF or gets killed. 🫶

On systems that support it (as of 2.0.0.0, only Linux 2.6.17 or later), s6-cat performs zero-copy transfer. slay for compatible kernels, fr fr. 🔥

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• 111 — Temporary error. it’s giving temporary oopsie. 😭
• 100 — Permanent error, such as a misuse. not the vibe, bestie. 🙈
• 127 — Unable to execute program - not found. the program is missing, not found, gone. 💀
• 126 — Unable to execute program - other reason. different execution problem, same “couldn’t run it” energy. 🥲

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• s6-basename(1)
• s6-chmod(1)
• s6-chown(1)
• s6-clock(1)
• s6-cut(1)
• s6-dirname(1)
• s6-dumpenv(1)
• s6-echo(1)
• s6-env(1)
• s6-expr(1)
• s6-false(1)
• s6-format-filter(1)
• s6-grep(1)
• s6-head(1)
• s6-hiercopy(1)
• s6-linkname(1)
• s6-ln(1)
• s6-ls(1)
• s6-maximumtime(1)
• s6-mkdir(1)
• s6-mkfifo(1)
• s6-nice(1)
• s6-nuke(1)
• s6-pause(1)
• s6-printenv(1)
• s6-quote(1)
• s6-quote-filter(1)
• s6-rename(1)
• s6-rmrf(1)
• s6-seq(1)
• s6-sleep(1)
• s6-sort(1)
• s6-sync(1)
• s6-tai64ndiff(1)
• s6-tail(1)
• s6-touch(1)
• s6-true(1)
• s6-uniquename(1)
• s6-unquote(1)
• s6-unquote-filter(1)
• s6-update-symlinks(1)
• seekablepipe(1)

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/cat.html

This man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-cat.html

🌈 STANDARDS 🌈

okay so the standards tea is: s6-cat is not suitable as a cat[1] program conforming to . 🫠

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Laurent Bercot
• Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

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xoxo, bestie 💜 this whole page is from Debian, dated April 16, 2022, and the manual page is S6-CAT(1). periodt. 🎀