FC-CAT(1)

💅 FC-CAT(1) — the fc-cat manual, bestie edition 🐱✨

okay so real talk, this is the manual page for fc-cat, section 1 of the fontconfig manuals. it's short, it's sweet, and it's literally just "show me what's in the font cache" — iconic behavior honestly 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

fc-cat — read font information cache files 📖💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fc-cat [ -rvVh ]  [ --recurse ]  [ --verbose ]  [ --version ]  [ --help ]

 [  [ fonts-cache-%version%-files ]  [ dirs ] ... ]

like, you can totally run it with basically nothing, or hand it some cache files and/or directories and it'll do its thing 🦋

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

okay so here's the tea ☕ — fc-cat reads the font information from cache files, or information related to font directories, and then emits all of it in ASCII form. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it dumps the cache contents out as text so you can actually look at them with your own two eyeballs 👀✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

this program follows the usual GNU command line syntax 🎀 — meaning long options start with two dashes (-). a summary of the options is included below, and yes i'm listing every single one, no skipping, periodt 💯

• -r — recurse into subdirectories 🌀 (yes queen, go deeper)
• -v — be verbose 🗣️ (say more, bestie)
• -h — show summary of options 📋
• -V — show version of the program and exit 🏁👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole fontconfig friend group, fr fr:

• fc-cache(1)
• fc-list(1)
• fc-match(1)
• fc-pattern(1)
• fc-query(1)
• fc-scan(1)

and also the fontconfig user's guide 👑 — <URL:https://fontconfig.pages.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html>

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

this manual page was written by Patrick Lam <plam@mit.edu> 🫶 (ty for your service, legend)

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ngl this page is giving "small but mighty" 💀 only four flags and yet so much power. go forth and cat those caches, bestie 💖

kisses, this was the fc-cat(1) page from Aug 13, 2008 🎀🦋 — mwah 💋