SYSTEMD-PATH(1)

🦋 NAME 🦋

systemd-path — bestie's little tool for listing and querying system and user paths 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

systemd-path [OPTIONS...] [NAME...]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so systemd-path is literally your go-to for querying system and user paths. It takes a whole bunch of the paths that file-hierarchy(7) talks about and makes them available for you to ask about, no cap. 🫶

When you run it with no arguments at all, it shows you a full list of known paths and what their current values are. When you pass at least one argument, it queries the path with that name and shows you its value. ✨

And here's the lil plot twist 👀 — variables whose names start with search- don't refer to individual paths. Instead they refer to a list of colon-separated search paths, in their order of precedence. slay.

⚠️ Important vibe check: paths that depend on environment variables are computed with systemd-path's invoked environment, not the system or user manager's environment. So the output of systemd-path may not reflect the behavior of manager processes. fr fr, don't get caught slippin' on that one. 💀

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

The following options are understood:

• --suffix= — printed paths get suffixed by the string you specify. Cute lil add-on, honestly. 🎀

Added in version 215.

• --no-pager — do not pipe output into a pager. Just raw output, straight to your terminal, no middleman. periodt.
• -h, --help — print a short help text and exit. the classic escape hatch 💖
• --version — print a short version string and exit.

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🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

On success, 0 is returned. Otherwise you get a non-zero failure code. that's it, that's the whole rule. ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

systemd(1), file-hierarchy(7)

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that reading btw 👑💜

this was brought to you by systemd 262.1 — mwah, love you, go query some paths 🦋🌸