fai-statoverride(8)

✨ fai-statoverride(8) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the System Manager's Manual section for fai-statoverride — it's giving "one little command, but make it a glow-up for a whole list of files" 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

fai-statoverride — literally dpkg-statoverride but for multiple files at once, no cap

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fai-statoverride FILE ...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what it does is override the owner and mode of a file or a directory. That's the whole vibe. 👑

But here's the slay part: instead of you sitting there typing the same thing over and over like a broken record, fai-statoverride calls dpkg-statoverride with multiple files. Multiple. Files. In one go. Iconic behaviour, honestly. 🫶

And the best bit — this command is idempotent ✨ which means you can run it again and again and it just… stays correct? It doesn't stack up weird changes, it doesn't spiral. It's the emotionally stable friend of the group chat. Run it once, run it a hundred times, same result. Periodt. 💖

lowkey the main character energy here is that it's boring on purpose: predictable, repeatable, done.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• dpkg-statoverride(8) — the OG single-file version, go say hi 🍓

Also, tiny lore drop: this program is part of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation). So yeah, it lives in that whole ecosystem, bestie. 🌈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Thomas Lange <lange@cs.uni-koeln.de> — thank you for your service, king 🫡💐

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and that's the whole page, babe 🌸 this one came from FAI 3.2, dated 3 Sep 2008 — vintage, but the idempotence still eats every single time. mwah 💅✨