FC-SCAN(1)

💅 fc-scan(1) — scan font files or directories 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, fc-scan is literally the scan font files or directories girlie. That's the whole vibe. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fc-scan [ -Vh ]

 [  [ -f format ]  [ --format format ]  ]  [ --version ]  [ --help ]
file...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

fc-scan scans file(s) recursively and prints out a font pattern for each face found. No cap, that's the main-character job. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). A summary of options is included below. (The synopsis also shows --format format, --version, and --help, iykyk. 💅)

• -f — Format output according to the format specifier format.
• -V — Show version of the program and exit.
• -h — Show summary of options.
• file — Scan file recursively for font faces.

💀 RETURN CODES 💀

fc-scan returns error code 0 if at least one font was found, or 1 otherwise. Simple vibe check. 🫶

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

fc-query(1) FcFileScan(3) FcDirScan(3) FcPatternFormat(3) fc-cat(1) fc-cache(1) fc-list(1) fc-match(1) fc-pattern(1)

The fontconfig user's guide <URL:https://fontconfig.pages.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html>

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was updated by Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>.

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💖 That's the whole page, bestie — dated Jan 15, 2009 and living under the FC-SCAN(1) banner. Slay. 🫶