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Ed Santiago d7f134d687 Refactor common man page options, phase 2
Followup to #15174. These are the options that are easy(ish)
to review: those that have only drifted slightly, and need
only minor tweaks to bring back to sanity. For the most part,
I went with the text in podman-run because that was cleaned up
in #5192 way back in 2020. These diffs primarily consist of
using '**' (star star) instead of backticks, plus other
formatting and punctuation changes.

This PR also adds a README in the options dir, and a new
convention: <<container text...|pod text...>> which tries
to do the right thing based on whether the man page name
includes "-pod-" or not. Since that's kind of hairy code,
I've also added a test suite for it.

Finally, since this is impossible to review by normal means,
I'm temporarily committing hack/markdown-preprocess-review,
a script that will diff option-by-option. I will remove it
once we finish this cleanup, but be advised that there are
still 130+ options left to examine, and some of those are
going to be really hard to reunite.

Review script usage: simply run it (you need to have 'diffuse'
installed). It isn't exactly obvious, but it shouldn't take more
than a minute to figure out. The rightmost column (zzz-chosen.md)
is the "winner", the actual content that will be used henceforth.
You really want an ultrawide screen here.

Signed-off-by: Ed Santiago <santiago@redhat.com>
2022-08-09 06:33:17 -06:00

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--entrypoint="command" | '["command", "arg1", ...]'

Overwrite the default ENTRYPOINT of the image.

This option allows you to overwrite the default entrypoint of the image.

The ENTRYPOINT of an image is similar to a COMMAND because it specifies what executable to run when the container starts, but it is (purposely) more difficult to override. The ENTRYPOINT gives a container its default nature or behavior, so that when you set an ENTRYPOINT you can run the container as if it were that binary, complete with default options, and you can pass in more options via the COMMAND. But, sometimes an operator may want to run something else inside the container, so you can override the default ENTRYPOINT at runtime by using a --entrypoint and a string to specify the new ENTRYPOINT.

You need to specify multi option commands in the form of a json string.