DUB-CONVERT(1)

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🎀 dub-convert — the glow-up your package recipe deserves 🎀

okay so real talk, this is the dub-convert page from the D Language Foundation's dub manual (that's dub-convert(1) if you're being fancy 💅), and it's literally just about flipping your package recipe between two file formats. that's it. that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

dub-convert — converts the file format of the package recipe. no cap, that's the entire job description 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dub convert OPTIONS...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically this command converts between JSON and SDLang formatted package recipe files. that's the whole thing. it's giving "glow-up translator" energy ✨

⚠️ Warning, bestie, listen to me: beware that any formatting and comments within the package recipe will get lost in the conversion process. like, gone gone. 😭 so if you've got your little commented-out vibes in there, they are not surviving the trip. screenshot it or something first, iykyk 💀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -f, --format=VALUE — specifies the target package recipe format. possible values:
    • json
    • sdl
  • -s, --stdout — outputs the converted package recipe to stdout instead of writing to disk. perfect for when you just wanna peek at it before committing to the whole thing 👀✨

💜 COMMON OPTIONS 💜

see dub(1) — the shared stuff lives over there, go check it out 🧚

✨ EXIT STATUS ✨

  • 0 — DUB succeeded. slay. 🎉
  • 1 — usage errors, unknown command line flags. oops 🙈
  • 2 — package not found, package failed to load, miscellaneous error. the "it's complicated" status 💀

✨ FILES ✨

  • dub.sdl
  • dub.json

the two main characters of this whole story 👑

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Copyright (c) 1999-2026 by The D Language Foundation. iconic. no further questions 🌈

✨ ONLINE DOCUMENTATION ✨

http://code.dlang.org/docs/commandline ⟨⟩ — go read the docs, bestie, they're right there 🔥

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

dub(1), dub-add(1), dub-init(1)

and that's the whole page, you ate that 💖 this cutie was brought to you by The D Language Foundation, dated 2026-08-16 — mwah, go convert something 🍓✨🫶

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