VDETERM(1)

📦 version 2.3.3, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, debian bookworm, debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ VDETERM(1) ✨

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for vdeterm from the General Commands Manual section — yes it's section 1, the baby of the man family 💅 let's get into it

🎀 NAME 🎀

vdeterm — a (simple) remote terminal for vde management sockets 💖

like, a terminal that talks to vde stuff. from a distance. iconic behaviour honestly.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

vdeterm socket

that's it. one (1) argument. one (1) vibe. no cap. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so vdeterm is a terminal application for a vde tools stream socket ✨ the way it just... connects and gives you a whole interactive session? obsessed.

it was created as part of the vde-2 project 💚 and its whole main character job is being a remote console for vde_switch or for the wirefilter application. like it's literally the little window into your switch's soul 🔥

and here's what makes it eat, no crumbs:

  • command editing ✏️ you can actually edit what you type, revolutionary, we love her
  • history of previous commands 📜 press up, go back in time, the past is yours
  • command completion 🪄 tab-tab-tab and the command finishes itself, she's self-sufficient
  • debug asynchronous messages do not interfere with the command editing line 💀✨ like the debug spam can arrive whenever and your half-typed command will NOT get wrecked. it stays clean. it stays cute. the messages just slide on in without stepping on your line 😌

👑 NOTICE 👑

🚨 important lore drop: Virtual Distributed Ethernet is not related in any way with www.vde.com — like, zero relation, no blood, no cousins, nothing. that's the "Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik" i.e. the German "Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies" 💀 same three letters, completely different people, please stop @-ing them

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these too bestie, iykyk:

💜 AUTHOR 💜

VDE is a project by Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it> 🫶 give him his flowers fr fr

Virtual Distributed Ethernet · July 29, 2008 — and that's the whole page babes, version and date included, we ate and left no crumbs 💅🎀✨

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