LinuxTaRT(1)

✨ LinuxTaRT 💖 (section 1 of the manual, bestie)

okay so this is the manual page for LinuxTaRT, and if you're here it's because you want your emails to have a signature that absolutely serves. TaRT is a signature generator, and like — it's giving main character energy, lowkey. Let's get into it. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

LinuxTaRT — generates email signatures. that's it. that's the whole job. and it does it iconically. 💅

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🦋 SYNTAX 🦋

tart [options]

that's literally all you need, bestie. tart and then whatever flags you're feeling.

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

TaRT generates email signatures based on a whole bunch of rules and settings — like, a variety, okay, it's not just one trick. and here's the slay part: it can make use of a template, which means you can produce signatures that are 100% customized. yes. one hundred percent. your signature, your rules. periodt. ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay this is the section you actually came for. every single flag, no skips, let's go 🫶

• -a, --add — prompts you for a new tagline and drops it into the tagline database. (heads up: this needs write permission on the database file!)
• -d, --display — shows you the current signature and then peaces out. exit. done.
• -h, --help — prints a help message and exits. classic. we love her.
• -k, --kill — terminates TaRT while it's in daemon mode. bye bestie 💀
• -p, --proc — displays the current status and the PID (if applicable, i.e. if there is one).
• -l, --license — displays the software license. the legal lore ✨
• -s, --setup — runs the built-in configuration tool. it's giving setup wizard, it's giving let me help you.
• --daemon <seconds> — starts in daemon mode and waits <seconds> seconds between updates. so like, it keeps refreshing on a timer, no cap.
• --template <filename> — runs TaRT with the custom file you specify here.
• --config <filename> — runs TaRT with the config file you specify here.

the next batch? these ones can be set in the configuration file. and important: the command line parameters will override other settings. CLI stays winning. 👑

• +c / -c — enable/disable signature centering. (default: disabled)
• +cust / -cust — build signature based on template. (default: enabled)
• +n / -n — enable/disable date in signature. (default: enabled)
• +q / -q — enable/disable quiet mode. (default: disabled)
• +sd / -sd — enable/disable special dates. (default: enabled)
• +v / -v — enable/disable TaRT version information in signature. (default: enabled)

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🧚 FILES 🧚

the sacred texts. the places where stuff lives. 💖

• ~/.tartrc — configuration file. the location and name of the following files can be set right here. it's the boss of the group chat.
• /etc/tart.tags — the tagline database. contains taglines, one per line.
• ~/.signature — the file where the signature gets written. this is the one that ends up in your emails, bestie.
• ~/.tart-tustom — the signature template. (yes, that's spelled with a "tustom" — we don't make the rules, we just read them 😭)
• ~/.tartdates — list of special dates. birthdays of the calendar, basically. 🌸

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

• HOME — specifies the user's home directory. (hi, it's me, your home directory, i'm the problem it's me 🫶)

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

okay let's actually do things. examples, go:

to run TaRT using default or stored settings:

tart

to run TaRT quietly:

tart +q

to run TaRT as a daemon and generate a new signature every 5 minutes:

tart --daemon 300

see how clean that is? no notes. 🔥

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👑 VERSION 👑

this man page was written for LinuxTaRT version 3.08. historic. iconic. 🎀

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💖 AUTHORS 💖

• Mark Veinot <mveinot@gmail.com>

the person who made all of this happen. we stan. 🙈

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• tartrc(5)
• tartdates(5)
• tart-custom(5)

go read those too, bestie, they're the extended universe. ✨

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and that's the whole page!! 💅 this one's a Mark Veinot production, version 1.0.2, for LinuxTaRT(1) — so like, if you ever forget, it's all right here waiting for you. no cap. 🫶🌸🦋