SUP-DUMP(1)

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💾 SUP-DUMP(1) — the sup-dump girlies' manual 💾

okay bestie, so you know how sup-dump lives in section 1 of the manual? yeah. that's her. she's an old-school Unix command and she's here to save your entire email vibe. let's get into it. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

sup-dump — dumps message state from the Sup index. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sup-dump [options]

no args, no drama. just options. she's low maintenance like that 🦋

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea 🍵: sup-dump dumps ALL message state from the Sup index straight to standard out. every single bit of it. no cap.

and the way that this is actually useful?? you can later run sup-sync --restored --restore to recover the index. so it's giving backup energy. it's giving insurance policy. 🫶

the main character moment for this tool is when a Sup upgrade breaks index format compatibility 😭 like when your old index just doesn't speak the new language anymore. that's when you're gonna be SO glad you dumped. literally.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -v, --version — print the version and dip. that's it, she's out. 👑
  • -h, --help — show the help message. the classic. the icon. the moment you forget a flag and need a lil reminder. 💖

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

dump message state and store it in a file 🍓

sup-dump > filename

dump message state, compress that output, then store it in a file 💜

sup-dump | bzip2 > filename.bz2

ngl the bzip2 one is the move if you have a big index. compress and slay. 🔥

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the whole friend group, fr fr. go say hi. ✨

✨ REPORTING BUGS ✨

you are welcome to submit bug reports to the Sup issue tracker, located at:

<https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/issues>

please be nice and please be specific, the devs are doing their best 🙈

✨ CONTACT INFORMATION ✨

come hang out, the community is genuinely so sweet 🧚

Copyright © 2006-2009 William Morgan <mworgan-sup@masanjin.net>

Copyright @ 2013-2014 Sup developers

Permission is granted to copy and distribute this manual under the terms of the GNU General Public License; either version 2 or (at your option) any later version.

yes bestie, that's the actual GPL-2-or-later situation. keep the license text, it's not optional. 💀

✨ AUTHORS ✨

Sup was originally written by William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net> and is now developed and maintained by the Sup developers.

shoutout to the OGs and shoutout to the current maintainers, absolute legends, both. 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the Sup User Manual, dated April 9, 2012, and we're all very proud of her. go dump that index, back up your state, and text your friends. mwah 💖💅✨

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