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conky:tldr:5a468
This command is used to run the Conky system monitor and configure its settings. Here is a breakdown of each part of the command:
-
conky
: This is the actual command that launches the Conky system monitor. Conky is a lightweight system monitor for Linux systems that displays various system information such as CPU usage, memory usage, network statistics, etc. -
-C
: This flag is used to tell Conky to use the default configuration file,conkyrc
. -
>
: This is a redirection operator in the shell, which is used to redirect the output of a command to a file instead of displaying it on the terminal. -
~/.conkyrc
: This is the file where the redirected output of theconky -C
command will be saved. The~
symbol represents the user's home directory, so~/.conkyrc
refers to the.conkyrc
file located in the user's home directory.
In summary, the conky -C
command runs Conky using the default configuration file, and the >
operator redirects the output to the .conkyrc
file in the user's home directory. This allows you to save the default Conky configuration settings to a file for further customization or backup purposes.