BOUND(1)

💅 BOUND(1) — like, the manual page, but make it make sense

okay so real talk: this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page for bound, and yes bestie, that means a real human Perl person contributed it. We love that for them. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

bound — finds boundary numbers in files or STDIN. that's it, that's the whole gig. minimums and maximums, no cap. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bound [-dhlV] <FILE>

| bound [-dhlV]     (Input on STDIN from pipeline.)

bound [-dhlV]       (Input on STDIN.  Use Ctrl-D to stop.)

so like — three ways to feed it. a file, a pipe, or you typing at it with your own two hands until you hit Ctrl+D. iconic honestly. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bound is a program that's part of the numeric utilities package, and honestly it's giving "small but mighty". it finds boundary numbers — that's the minimum and the maximum — in files or on STDIN. borderline main character energy for such a tiny utility. ✨

by default it finds the upper bound in the set of numbers (the maximum number) in the files or on STDIN. so if you just run it with no flag, it's hunting for the biggest one. the way that it just knows. 🔥

but bestie, if you want the lower bound (the minimum number), you use the -l option. that's it. that's the plot twist. 🎀

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -l — returns the lower bound number in the set (the minimum number). the littlest guy. the underdog. the "aww look at them". 🥺
• -h — help. you're literally looking at it right now. hi. hello. welcome. 🫶
• -V — increase verbosity. it talks more. talkative queen behavior. 💬
• -d — debug mode. for developers only. if that's not you, no gatekeeping, but like… it's for developers. 🙈

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💀 BUGS 💀

okay so we have to be honest here: bound currently will only gather the first number on each line instead of all the numbers on the lines.

like, it's not reading the whole line, bestie. it peeks at the first number and then it's done. so if you've got a line with five numbers on it, four of them are just… standing there. unread. 😭 that's the bug. that's the whole bug. we said what we said.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

siblings! the whole family! go say hi to:

average(1), interval(1), normalize(1), numgrep(1), numprocess(1), numsum(1), random(1), range(1), round(1)

(that's nine of them, and yes, they all live in the same little numeric utilities house. family dinner is wild. 🍓)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

bound is part of the num-utils package, which is copyrighted by Suso Banderas and released under the GPL license. please, please, pretty please read the COPYING and LICENSE files that came with the num-utils package. they're right there. they want to be read. 🎀

developers can read the GOALS file and contact me about providing submitions or help for the project. yes — go read GOALS, and slide into the inbox if you want to help out. 🫶

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🌟 MORE INFO 🌟

more info on bound can be found at:

http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/

go click it. it's right there. it's giving vintage URL and we're obsessed. 💜

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and that's the page!! 🧚✨ brought to you by perl v5.42.3, dated 2004-11-19, filed under BOUND(1) — mwah, bye bestie, go find some boundaries 💅💖