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Command Line Basics - Plucky Manual
Command Line Basics - Plucky Manual
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This page briefly explains a few of the more basic Plucky commands you can run in a console
window to control how Plucky operates.
Readers who are terrified of typing should learn to at least open a console window and type pluck
version to fight against their fear.
pluck delay
Use the delay command followed by a time period to set your current delay, like so:
pluck delay 60
Don’t set your delay to be very long yet, though! Take a few days first to get used to Plucky and
ensure it is behaving the way you want it to.
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pluck future
If you see no output from the future command, it either means that your delay is 0 (so any changes
you make are immediate), or there are no pending changes. If your delay is 0, you can temporarily
set your delay to 60 seconds and add an allow rule to see what the future command would normally
print:
pluck delay 60
pluck delay 0
pluck + allow example.com
pluck future
pluck + system
To disable the system feature (note that the change won’t take effect for one delay period):
pluck - system
To see if the system feature is enabled, use pluck features, like so:
pluck features
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Other examples
Some common rule-changing examples follow using the + (add) and - (remove) commands with
allow and block rules.
To block part of a site by url, just block the url. All sub-urls will be automatically blocked.
Blocking by program
To block a program’s access to the internet:
As + adds, so - removes:
More help
Invoke the pluck help and pluck more-help commands to see some other things you can do at the
command line.
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