05-07-2010
${STRING%SUBSTRING} removes SUBSTRING from the end of STRING
\n : the \ must be escaped by \ so thats why i wrote \\n
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NAME
plymouthd - The plymouth daemon
SYNOPSIS
plymouthd [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
The plymouthd daemon is usually run out of the initrd. It does the heavy lifting of the plymouth system, logging the session and showing
the splash screen.
The plymouth is used to send commands to plymouthd that control its behaviour.
OPTIONS
The following options are understood:
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Show summary of options.
--attach-to-session
Redirect console messages from screen to log.
--no-daemon
Do not daemonize.
--debug
Output debugging information.
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Set mode to either boot or shutdown.
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TTY to ues instead of default.
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