BSPINFO(1)

📦 version 0.18.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 BSPINFO(1) 💅

okay so real talk, this is a page from the General Commands Manual and it's about bspinfo, a whole entire little tool for peeking inside Quake BSP files. bestie, it's giving "x-ray vision for map files" and I'm obsessed. 🩻✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

bspinfo — print basic information about a Quake BSP file 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bspinfo BSPFILE

that's it. one argument. iconic minimalism. 👑

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so bspinfo will print a very basic summary of the internal data in BSPFILE. like, it's not doing a whole deep dive, it's just vibing and telling you what's in there. 🫶

first up: the BSP version number gets printed. then you get one line for each of the data types inside, and each of those lines gives you the count and the data size in bytes of that data type. so you literally get to see the receipts of what's inside your .bsp. slay. 📊

and here's a fun little quirk — if the filename BSPFILE does not have a .bsp extension, bsputil will look for a .bsp file by stripping the file extension from BSPFILE (if any) and appending ".bsp". yep, that's what it says, that's what it does, no cap. 🙈

ngl, that last paragraph is very "the way that it just does that" energy, but it's the documented behaviour so we keep it. 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

  • Kevin Shanahan (aka Tyrann) — http://disenchant.net
  • Eric Wasylishen
  • Based on source provided by id Software

a whole team of legends, fr fr. ✨

🌈 REPORTING BUGS 🌈

found a bug? bestie, please post bug reports at https://github.com/ericwa/ericw-tools/issues. and lowkey — improvements to the documentation are welcome and encouraged, so if you wanna make the docs cuter, the door is open. 🚪💖

  • Copyright (C) 2017 Eric Wasylishen
  • Copyright (C) 2013 Kevin Shanahan
  • Copyright (C) 1997 id Software
  • License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later — <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl2.html>.

and the important part, say it with me: this is free software, you are free to change and redistribute it. there is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. like literally none. zero. 🫥

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group. go say hi. 🌸

and that's the page, bestie!! 💜 this gem came out of the TYRUTILS collection, version TYR_VERSION, and it's dated with the TYRUTILS timestamp on the BSPINFO(1) page. go read a BSP file and live your truth. 🎀✨

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