sympa-instantiate(1)

✨ NAME ✨

sympa-instantiate — the little glow-up machine that instantiates the lists in a family 💅 (and yes bestie, it lives in the sympa manual, section 1, so if you ever forget us just run man 1 sympa-instantiate) 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

"sympa instantiate" "--input-file="/path/to/file.xml [ "--close-unknown"
] [ "--noout" ] family"@@"domain

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so here's the tea ☕: this command instantiates all the lists that are described inside file.xml, and it does it inside the family you point it at. It's giving "new lists, who dis" ✨

A few things you absolutely need to know before you go off, bestie:

• The family directory has to already exist — like, it must be there. No directory, no instantiation, periodt 🚫
• If you pass --close_unknown, it will automatically close undefined lists when it does a new instantiation 👑 (iconic for keeping your family tidy, fr fr)
• If you pass --noout, it will not print the report 🤫 so no yapping, just vibes

Heads up: the option that closes undefined lists appears as --close-unknown in the synopsis but as --close_unknown in the description. That's the original's whole thing, not a typo on my part — iykyk 💀

Also the target is written as family"@@"domain — that's your family name, then the domain, glued together with that @@ situation 🌈

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🫶 THE OPTIONS (a.k.a. the fits you can put it in) 🫶

• --input-file=/path/to/file.xml — the file where all your list descriptions live. This is the main character of the whole operation 📄✨
• --close-unknown (--close_unknown in the description, no cap) — automatically closes undefined lists in a new instantiation. Iconic cleanup energy 🧹
• --noout — do not print the report. Silent mode, mysterious mode, lowkey mode 🙈
• family"@@"domain — the family and the domain you're instantiating into, smooshed together with @@ 💫

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie — every flag, every default, nothing skipped 🎀

this page is from sympa version 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19, and it's sympa-instantiate from section 1 of the manual 🦋 stay hydrated, read your man pages, and slay 💜