xx(1)

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💖 xx — bestie's guide to the F*EX CLI 💖

okay so this is the manual page for xx, a General Commands Manual situation, and honestly? it's giving tiny page, huge power. it's the CLI client for the F*EX service — that's send, list, delete, the whole girlboss trifecta. let's go 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

xx — CLI client for the F*EX service (send, list, delete). yes bestie, that's literally it. three jobs, zero drama. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

xx args

that's it. that's the whole vibe. xx plus args. iconic. ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so, F*EX stands for Frams' Fast File EXchange — it's a service for sending big files (like, big, large, huge, giant, …) from a user A to a user B. the full glow-up of that sentence is right there in the original and i refuse to water it down. 💅

this manual page documents the xx command — briefly, as the original puts it. lowkey a teaser trailer, highkey enough to get you going.

real talk though: this manual page was written for the Debian distribution, because the original program does not have a manual page. so if you were wondering "where's the upstream docs, bestie?" — there aren't any. this is it. we're the docs. 😭

💅 USAGE 💅

here's where the actual moves live. pay attention, this is the main character section. 🌟

  • xx [:slot] file... — send file(s). the classic. just hand it some files and let it cook. 🍓
  • xx [:slot] - — send STDIN. the little - is doing the heavy lifting here, no cap.
  • ... | xx [:slot] — send pipe. pipe something into it and it's off to the races. 🌈
  • xx [:slot] — get file(s) or STDIN. the receiving end of the whole relationship. 💜
  • xx [:slot] -- — get file(s), no questions. zero prompts, zero small talk, straight to business. ⭐

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

the actual receipts, copied exactly, because these are sacred texts: 🙏

dmesg | xx
xx project
xx --
xx :conf /etc /boot

see how :conf shows up there as a slot? cute. the syntax was never the problem, bestie, you got this. 💖

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

xx was written by Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> — the original icon, the blueprint, the moment. 👑

and this manual page was written by Michael Bussmann <debian@mb-net.net> for the Debian project — but, and i quote the energy here, it may be used by others. sharing is caring, slay. 🎀

Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>.

License: Perl Artistic

that's the whole thing, no fine print surprises. 🌸

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those next, iykyk. 📚✨

and that's a wrap, bestie!! this page is from F*EX 20140902, dated 2014-09-12, and it's the xx(1) page of the General Commands Manual. sending you big files and even bigger energy. mwah 💋🦋💖

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