SYSTEMD-PTY-FORWARD(1)

✨ SYSTEMD-PTY-FORWARD ✨

okay bestie, so this is systemd-pty-forward, from the systemd-pty-forward(1) manual page, and it's genuinely one of the cutest little tools in the whole systemd family, no cap 💖

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🎀 NAME 🎀

systemd-pty-forward — run a command with a custom terminal background color or title

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

systemd-pty-forward [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND}

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like. systemd-pty-forward lets you run a command with a custom terminal background color or title. that's it, that's the whole vibe. you give it a command, it gives that command a lil makeover while it runs 🌈✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

here's everything it understands, and yes we're going through all of them because every single one matters:

• --background=COLOR — changes the terminal background color to whatever ANSI color you name, and keeps it that way for as long as the command is running 💜 the color you pass needs to be an ANSI X3.64 SGR background color, so like strings such as "40", "41", ..., "47", "48;2;...", "48;5;...". if you wanna know the details, go look at ANSI Escape Code (Wikipedia) — link's down in NOTES, iykyk 🧚

for example: "--background=44" gives you a blue background. iconic.

Added in version 258.

• --title=TITLE — changes the terminal title to whatever string you pass, and holds it there for as long as the command runs ✨

Added in version 258.

• --quiet, -q — suppresses extra informational output while running 🤫 so like, it still works, it's just not gonna chat at you about it.

Added in version 258.

• --read-only — do not accept any user input on standard input 🙈 basically it stops listening to your keyboard entirely.

Added in version 258.

• -h, --help — prints a short help text and then dips 👋
• --version — prints a short version string and then dips 👋

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📝 NOTES 📝

1. ANSI Escape Code (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#SGR_(Select_Graphic_Rendition)_parameters

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and that's the whole page bestie 🫶 this was systemd-pty-forward(1) from systemd 262.1 — go give your terminal a glow-up, you've earned it 💖🌸🦋