snippetexpanderd(1)

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version 1.1.2 · 2 versions
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🦋 snippetexpanderd — the Snippet Expander Daemon, aka the main character

okay so real talk, this page is the man page for snippetexpanderd, and it lives in the Snippet Expander Daemon Manual. yes bestie, there's a whole daemon and she is that girl. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

snippetexpanderd — the Snippet Expander daemon. no cap, that's her whole job title.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so snippetexpanderd is literally the brains of Snippet Expander 🧠✨. she must be running for the other components to work — like the snippetexpander CLI and the snippetexpandergui desktop client applications. if she's not up, nothing else is slaying. it's giving "group project where one person does everything".

she manages the database of snippets, most settings, and honestly performs a ton of other background operations on behalf of the client applications. she's the responsible one fr fr. 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

snippetexpanderd [{-d|--database} filename] [-v|--version] [-h|--help]

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

  • -d, --database=filename — optional database path, and it's relative to the XDG_DATA_HOME path (usually ~/.local/share/). so like, she knows where home is 💖
  • -v, --version — display version number. simple, iconic, does exactly what it says. ⭐
  • -h, --help — display help. the classic "bestie pls explain" flag 🙈

💜 NOTES 💜

okay so you probably don't want to manually run snippetexpanderd yourself. lowkey she prefers to be started via the snippetexpander CLI or the snippetexpandergui desktop client applications. let them do the introductions. 🦋

by default, snippetexpanderd saves snippets and settings to an SQLite database at ~/.local/share/snippetexpanderd/snippetexpanderd.db. that's her little home, respect it. 🏠💕

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

she rolls with a whole squad, go say hi:

👑 AUTHORS 👑

created and maintained by Ian Jones <ian@ianmjones.com> 💖 — up-to-date sources can be found at https://git.sr.ht/~ianmjones/snippetexpander, and info on how to contribute + where bug reports and feature requests may be submitted lives on the project page at https://snippetexpander.org. 🫶✨

and that's the whole vibe check! this beauty is from the Snippet Expander Daemon Manual, dated 1980-01-01 (yes, the date is ancient, she's vintage 💀), and it's the snippetexpanderd(1) page. mwah, go run your daemon responsibly 💅🎀

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