ezz(1)

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✨ ezz(1) — the edit helper for your generic zz clip board ✨

okay bestie, buckle up 💖 this is the manual page for ezz, living in the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood Unix system. She's little, she's mighty, she's giving "editor sidekick energy" and honestly? obsessed.

🌸 NAME 🌸

ezz — edit helper program for the generic zz clip board 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ezz [args]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like. ezz is the edit helper program for the generic zz clip board program. that's her whole job and she does it flawlessly, no notes. 👑

the clip board itself lives at $ZZ — and if you never set that, she'll just vibe with the default: $HOME/.zz. periodt.

💀 real talk though: this manual page was written for the Debian distribution, because the original program literally does not have a manual page. not a single one. so we made one. you're welcome. 🎀

🌈 USAGE 🌈

here's the whole menu, bestie, no skips, no cuts:

  • ezz — edit $ZZ ✏️
  • ... | ezz — write STDIN from the pipe into $ZZ and then call the editor 🚰
  • ezz "perl-script" — run that perl-script on $ZZ 🧚
  • ezz - "perl-script" — run that perl-script on $ZZ and write the result to STDOUT 👀
  • ezz filter [args] — run filter [with args] on $ZZ 🔥
  • ezz - filter [args] — run filter [with args] on $ZZ and write the result to STDOUT ✨
  • ezz -r restore — restore $ZZ from the last ezz operation, which lives at $ZZ~ ⏪

see how the - is lowkey doing the most? she's the "and also send it to STDOUT" girlie. iykyk. 💅

😭 LIMITATIONS 😭

  • zz does not work across different accounts

that's it. that's the limit. she stays in her lane, she does not cross accounts, do not ask her to. 🙈

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

copy these EXACTLY, bestie, character for character:

ls -l | ezz
ezz "s/ /_/g"
ezz head -3
ezz - head -3

look at that last one. ezz - head -3 really said "give me the first 3 lines of $ZZ and hand them to me on a plate". iconic. 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

  • ezz was written by Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
  • This manual page was written by Michael Bussmann <debian@mb-net.net> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🫶

two absolute legends, we love them, we thank them. 🌸

Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>. License: Perl Artistic

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read those too, they're the extended universe. 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this beauty came out of the F*EX 20140902 source, dated 2014-09-12 — so like, she's vintage but she still eats. mwah. 💅✨

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