STAR_SYM(1L)

📦 version 1.6, in fedora 43, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💫 STAR_SYM — the inode database translator 💫

okay so first things first, bestie: this page lives in Schily´s USER COMMANDS (that's the manual it calls home 🏠), and the command itself is star_sym. It's a little one, but it's a real one, and she's here to make your incremental restore data make sense. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

star_sym — turn an inode data base into something a human can actually read, because staring at raw binary is not the vibe 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

star_sym [ options ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕: star_sym reads an inode data base file — one of those things left behind by a previous incremental restore done with star(1) — and prints that data base out in a human readable format. that's it. that's the whole job. and honestly? iconic. she takes your cryptic little inode soup and serves it up pretty 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -help — prints a short summary of the star_sym(1) options and then exits. (the og page says "exists" and honestly? she does exist. she's valid. but yeah, she exits 💀)
  • -version — prints the star_sym(1) version number string and then exits. so you can be like "which one am i running" and she'll tell you, fr fr.

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • star-symtable — the file that holds the star inode data base from an incremental restore. this is the one she's reading, bestie. this is the whole point 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

💜 NOTES 💜

(nothing here, babe. the original left this section blank and we are respecting her silence. main character quiet moment ✨)

💀 BUGS 💀

(also empty. no bugs documented, no drama documented. a peaceful page. we love that for her 🌸)

quick vibe check: star_sym is tiny on purpose — read the table, print the table, offer -help and -version, done. don't go looking for extra flags, because there aren't any, and i'm not about to invent them for you 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this little gem came from Joerg Schilling, dated 15. May 2010, under the STAR_SYM(1L) banner — so if you ever see those numbers floating around, that's your girl, that's the version you're reading 💖 stay slay, read your inode tables responsibly 👑✨

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