S6-SYNC(1)

✨ S6-SYNC(1) ✨

okay so this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and it's about s6-sync — the tiniest little icon in the s6-portable-utils lineup 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

s6-sync — flush all the dirty system buffers, and block until they're clean 🫧✨

bestie. it flushes everything. all of it. and then it waits — it does not go home until the buffers are actually clean, no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

s6-sync

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no options, no arguments, no little flags to fuss over. she takes nothing and she gives you a clean buffer. periodt 👑

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

so like, when it's done (or when it isn't), it tells you how it went with these numbers:

• 111 — Temporary error. 😭 it's giving "try again later", lowkey not your fault.
• 100 — Permanent error, such as a misuse. 🙈 like, you genuinely did something wrong and it's not coming back from that.
• 127 — Unable to execute program - not found. 💀 the program literally isn't there, it's missing, it's gone, iykyk.
• 126 — Unable to execute program - other reason. 🫠 found it, but couldn't run it — different problem, same sadness.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole s6-portable-utils friend group showed up to the group chat 💖 go say hi:

• s6-basename(1)
• s6-cat(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-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)

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

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

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🧚 a little note about where this came from 🧚

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie ✨💖 this version lives over in Debian, dated April 18, 2022 — go flush those buffers, ily, bye 🎀🦋