FSTRACE_APROPOS(8)

💖 FSTRACE_APROPOS 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the AFS Command Reference, and we're talking about fstrace_apropos — it's the little search-bestie that finds help entries for you 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

fstrace_apropos — literally just displays each help entry that contains a keyword string you give it 🔍💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fstrace apropos -topic <help string> [-help]

fstrace a -t <help string> [-h]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: the fstrace apropos command shows you the first line of the online help entry for any fstrace command whose name or short description has the string you specified with the -topic argument in it. like a vibe check but for command names ✨

and if you want the whole syntax of a command — not just the little teaser first line — you gotta use the fstrace help command instead. apropos is giving you a snack, help is giving you the full meal 🍓

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -topic <help string> — this is where you drop the keyword string you wanna match. ⚠️ lowercase letters ONLY — do not come in here with your capital letters, it will not go well. and if your string is more than one single word, wrap it in double quotes ("") or whatever other delimiters you vibe with. no cap.
• -help — prints the online help for this command (fstrace apropos itself, meta ik). and listen: all the other valid options get ignored when you use this. they're not invited to the party 🙈

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👑 OUTPUT 👑

so the first line of a command's online help entry is the part that names the command and briefly says what it does. this command prints that first line for every fstrace command where the string you gave to -topic shows up in the command name or in that first line. simple. iconic. periodt. 💅

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

say you wanna list every fstrace command that has the word "set" in its name or its short description — here's the move:

% fstrace apropos set
clear: clear logs by logname or by event set
lsset: list available event sets
setlog: set the size of a log
setset: set state of event sets

look at that. four lil results. all the set-siblings reunited 🫶

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⭐ PRIVILEGE REQUIRED ⭐

None 🎉 you need absolutely nothing. zero credentials. go off.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• fstrace(8)
• fstrace_help(8)

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.

This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.

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and that's the whole page bestie, fr fr 💖 big love to the OpenAFS girlies — this one's from 2026-07-27, so keep it fresh in your man cache. mwah 🧚💜