FUNCTION::SYSTEM(3stap)

💅 FUNCTION::SYSTEM 💅

okay bestie, this page lives in the Shell command functions section of the manual (that's the 3stap vibe, iykyk) and it's genuinely so useful, you're gonna be obsessed 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

function::system — issue a command to the system ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

system(cmd:string)

like. that's it. that's the whole thing. no cap 💖

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• cmd — the command you wanna issue to the system. that's the one job. go off 👑

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕ — this function runs a command on the system. but not, like, right this second. the command gets started in the background, and it kicks off some time after the current probe completes. so it's giving delayed, not immediate. main character entrance but fashionably late 🕐💅

it runs with the same UID as the user running the stap or staprun command. same identity, no glow-up, no switching it up. whoever ran the tool is whoever runs the command, fr fr 🪪

⚠️ okay important bestie, listen — the runtime may impose a relatively short length limit on the command string. and if you exceed it? it may print a warning. so don't be out here writing a whole novel into cmd and then acting shocked when it complains 😭 keep it cute, keep it short.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• tapset::system(3stap) — go read the sibling page too, we love a crossover episode 🌈

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and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 💖 no crumbs left. this was the SystemTap Tapset Reference, version date September 2026 — catch you on the next manpage, mwah 🎀✨🦋