WAIT4X(1)

💖 WAIT4X 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for wait4x from the User Commands section of the manual — yes she's a section 1 girlie, a whole real program, and she's here to make your life SO much easier 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

wait4x — wait for a port or a service to enter the requested state 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like, Wait4X lets you wait for a port to enter into specify state, or wait for a service — think redis, mysql, postgres, ... you know the vibe — to enter inter ready state. It's giving "chill, I'll tell you when it's ready" energy and honestly? obsessed. 😌✨

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🎀 Usage:

wait4x [command]

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🌈 Available Commands:

• dns — Check DNS records 🦋
• exec — Check command execution 💻
• help — Help about any command 🙋
• http — Check HTTP connection 🌐
• influxdb — Check InfluxDB connection - this feature is disabled 💀
• kafka — Check Kafka connection 🍓
• mongodb — Check MongoDB connection 🍃
• mysql — Check MySQL connection 🐬
• postgresql — Check PostgreSQL connection 🐘
• rabbitmq — Check RabbitMQ connection 🐰
• redis — Check Redis connection - this feature is disabled 💀
• tcp — Check TCP connection 🔌
• temporal — Check Temporal connection - this feature is disabled 💀
• version — Show Wait4X version information 👑

bestie, heads up: influxdb, redis and temporal are all disabled rn. not me crying 😭 the feature is literally turned off, no cap.

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💅 Flags:

• --backoff-exponential-coefficient float — Coefficient used to calculate the exponential backoff when backoff-policy is exponential. (default 2)
• --backoff-exponential-max-interval duration — Maximum interval time between each loop when backoff-policy is exponential. (default 5s)
• --backoff-policy string — Select the backoff policy ("linear"|"exponential". (default "linear")
• -h, --help — help for wait4x 🥺
• -i, --interval duration — Interval time between each loop. (default 1s)
• -v, --invert-check — Invert the sense of checking. 🙃
• --no-color — If specified, output won't contain any color. (sad, no rainbow 🌈😭)
• -q, --quiet — Quiet or silent mode. Do not show logs or error messages. 🤫
• -t, --timeout duration — Timeout is the maximum amount of time that Wait4X will wait for a checking operation, 0 is unlimited. (default 10s)

Use "wait4x [command] --help" for more information about a command. 👑

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The full documentation for wait4x is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and wait4x programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info wait4x

should give you access to the complete manual. 📖✨

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wait4x 3.6.0 💜 February 2026 — that's the version and the date bestie, she's serving section 1 of the User Commands manual, and honestly? iconic. periodt. 💅🎀🫶