apptainer(1)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to apptainer-plugin-inspect — the little command that lets you take a peek inside an Apptainer plugin 👀. and by "peek inside" i mean either one that's already installed on your system, or one that's still chilling inside an image waiting to be installed. it's giving backstage pass energy 🎀

this whole thing lives in the apptainer(1) manual, so like… that's the family it belongs to 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

apptainer plugin inspect (|)

yes that's literally the whole synopsis, no cap, it's a little mysterious, we love a minimal queen 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

bestie listen. the 'plugin inspect' command is your new fave because it lets a user inspect a plugin — and it does it in two iconic ways:

• it can inspect a plugin that's already installed in the system 💖
• or it can inspect an image containing a plugin that is yet to be installed 🦋

that's it. that's the whole vibe. it's the "who are you and where did you come from" of plugin commands, and honestly? obsessed ✨

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• -h, --help[=false] — help for inspect 💅 (yes the default is false, so it's not gonna help you unless you ask, main character boundaries fr)

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

here's what it looks like when you actually run it, and yes it ate:

$ apptainer plugin inspect example.com/test-plugin
Name: example.com/test-plugin
Description: A test Apptainer plugin.
Author: Sylabs
Version: 0.1.0

look at that output. Name:, Description:, Author:, Version: — the full lil résumé 😭 so cute. example.com/test-plugin is just the demo star of the show, Sylabs is the author, 0.1.0 is the version, A test Apptainer plugin. is the description. every field present and accounted for 🧚

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• apptainer-plugin(1) — go read the parent page if you want the whole plugin saga, iykyk 🫶

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💀 HISTORY 💀

22-Oct-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra. not me being born from a code generator 😭 still iconic though 🔥

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ngl, this page is short and sweet and that's the point — inspect a plugin, get its deets, move on with your gorgeous life 💜

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and that's a wrap bestie!! this page was auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Oct 2026, and it's part of the apptainer(1) manual — so go forth and inspect those plugins, you absolute icon ⭐🎀💖