tirm(1)

💅 tirm — bestie edition ✨

okay so you wanna know about tirm?? that's the tirm(1) manual page, from the General Commands Manual section, and honestly? she's a baddie. let's get into it 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

tirm — delete files from a graphing calculator 🗑️✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tirm [ options ] variable-pattern ...

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

so basically, tirm is out here remotely deleting variable and/or program files from a TI graphing calculator that you're connected to. lowkey iconic. 🦋

💀 heads up bestie: only newer calculators support remote file deletion. if yours is ancient, that's a skill issue, not a tirm issue.

you can be super specific and name the exact variables you want gone (like FOO.8xp), or you can go full main-character and use wildcards to nuke everything matching a pattern (like *.83l). the range?? unmatched. 🔥

😭 okay but REAL TALK: if you're using wildcards, you MUST wrap the pattern in quotes, otherwise the shell will try to interpret that pattern itself and it's gonna be a whole thing. protect your patterns. protect your peace. 🫶

🔌 LINK OPTIONS 🔌

• -c, --cable=type[:port] — pick your link cable, bestie. if you don't say anything, tirm will just go searching for USB cables connected to the system like it's looking for its friends in a crowd. 🧚 the cable type can be either the full name — GrayLink, BlackLink, Parallel, SilverLink, DirectLink, VTI, TiEmu, UsbKernel — or the 3-letter abbreviation — gry, blk, par, slv, usb, vti, tie, dev. and listen: for serial- and parallel-port link cables, you also gotta specify a port number. no port, no party. 💅
• -m, --calc=type — tell it which calculator model you're working with. if you don't, tirm will try to figure out the model automatically, and honestly, she's pretty good at it. ⭐
• --timeout=n — wait up to n milliseconds for the calculator to respond. give her a sec, she's thinking. 🙈

✨ OTHER OPTIONS ✨

• -v, --verbose — print out all the juicy details of your link operations. very "tell me everything" energy. 👑
• --help — print out program version information. 📖
• --version — print out program version information. 📖 (yes bestie, same as above, they said what they said, and we respect it.)

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

• TITOOLS_CABLE — the default link cable to use, if you didn't specify the -c option. 🎀
• TITOOLS_CALC — the default calculator model to use, if you didn't specify the -m option. 🎀
• TITOOLS_TIMEOUT — the default timeout value, in milliseconds. 🎀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

tiget(1), tiinfo(1), tikey(1), tils(1), tiput(1), tiscr(1)

go read the whole friend group, they're all serving 💖

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Benjamin Moody <floppusmaximus@users.sf.net> — absolute legend, we stan 🎀

okay that's the whole page!! this is TITools 0.1, dated August 2010, and it lives in the tirm(1) era of the manual. periodt. 💅✨🦋