smuxi-message-buffer(1)

📦 version 1.2.1, in debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

🌸 NAME 🌸

smuxi-message-buffer — converts and dumps Smuxi chat history 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

smuxi-message-buffer [-dh] convert [--source-format=format]
                     [--destination-format=format] source-file(s)...
                     destination-file
smuxi-message-buffer [-dh] cat [--format=format] source-file(s)...

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay bestie, so smuxi-message-buffer is the lil tool that manages the databases where Smuxi keeps all your chat histories. Right now it can do two things: convert them and dump them. that's it, that's the job. 💅

And the way it works? it's giving git(1). fr fr — just like git(1), the very first parameter you hand it is a command. your choices are:

  • cat — dumps a JSON representation of the database to standard output. yep, straight to stdout, no cap. ✨
  • convert — changes the database from one format to another. glow-up but for your data. 🦋
also, lowkey important: for convert, the destination file can be set to "-" or left empty, and in that case it will export to stdout. so - is literally your bestie here. 🫶

The following options can be used. Some options will depend on what command you're using — so read the vibe check before you go mashing flags. 🙈

  • -d, --debug — turn on debugging. Debug logs are outputted on the console. 🔍
  • -h, --help — show the arguments Smuxi takes. the classic "help me bestie" button. 🎀
  • *--source-format=format* — manually specify a source format. Options include auto (figured out via filename), db4o, and sqlite. 👑
  • *--format=format* — manually specify a source format. Options include auto (figured out via filename), db4o, and sqlite. 💜
  • *--destination-format=format* — manually specify a source destination, if converting. Options include auto (figured out via filename), db4o, and sqlite. 🌈

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

Website: https://smuxi.im/ 🌸

💖 AUTHOR/CREDITS 💖

Smuxi, including this tool, was written by Mirco Bauer. 👑

This manpage was written by Calvin Buckley. 🫶

and that's a wrap on smuxi-message-buffer(1) from the General Commands Manual, Debian edition, dated March 6, 2014 — slay, go dump some chat history, ily, bye bestie 💅✨🎀
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