ARPTABLES-LEGACY-SAVE(8)

✨ ARPTABLES-LEGACY-SAVE(8) ✨

okay bestie, we're doing the arptables-legacy-save page, section 8, and honestly? it's a short one but it's lowkey iconic. it does exactly one thing and it ate 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

arptables-legacy-save — save ARP tables, fr fr

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

arptables-legacy-save

that's it. no flags, no arguments, no options, no drama. she takes zero notes and she takes zero input. just type her name and go 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie: arptables-legacy-save dumps the entire contents of an ARP Table to STDOUT, and it formats it so it's easily parseable — meaning you can actually feed it to a script later without wanting to scream. no cap.

and like, it goes to STDOUT, not to a file. it does not write a file for you. so if you want it in a file (and you probably do, since the whole point is saving it) you use the I/O-redirection your shell already hands you. your shell is the main character here, she's got you 🫶

something like redirecting that STDOUT into wherever you want it to live. the manpage literally just says: use the I/O-redirection provided by your shell to write to a file. so that's the move. periodt.

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💀 BUGS 💀

none known as of the arptables-0.0.3.3 release ✨

she's clean, she's unproblematic, she's never given us a single issue. not me being obsessed with a tool that just works 😭

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> — thank you for your service, legend 🫡💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• arptables-legacy-restore(8) — the other half of the duo, the one that puts it all back 💅
• arptables-legacy(8) — the parent, the whole vibe, the source of it all 🎀

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ok real talk though — this page is from May 08, 2008, so it's giving vintage, it's giving retro, it's giving "she was there before you were" 🦋 but the info still hits the same.

and that's the page bestie!! written from the ARPTABLES-LEGACY-SAVE(8) manual, dated May 08, 2008, and yes that date is literally older than most of the internet's lore. go dump your ARP tables, redirect that STDOUT, and slay 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶