SSID(1)

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💖 SSID(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the suckless-tools corner of the manual, where we're talking about ssid — the little tool with big main character energy. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

ssid — simple setsid 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ssid [-v] cmd [ args ]

like… that's it. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so ssid is an extremely simple setsid replacement — like, it is not trying to be extra, it is just doing the thing. ✨

what it does: it executes whatever command you hand it, but first it assumes the present session identity, and possibly — depending on the situation — it forks so it can get a correct process group. that's the whole job. iconic behavior honestly. 👑

💜 OPTIONS 💜

  • -v — feed ssid this and it prints its version. that's literally the only option. it does not do anything else when fed -v. periodt. 🎀

🧚 NOTES 🧚

ok so heads up, this is the classic forking-software moment 😭 — just like with all forking software, the shell interpreter might misplace a line feed when it's displaying output from the command you invoked. don't panic, bestie. it's a timing artefact. it's giving "not a bug, it's a scheduling situation." 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

ssid was written by Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam@gmail.com>. 💖

This manual page was written by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie — version 0.1, dated 2008-08-03, filed under SSID(1). slay, ate, no crumbs left. 💅✨🎀
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