FF2PAM(1)

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💖 FF2PAM(1) — the farbfeld-to-PAM glow-up 💖

General Commands Manual ✨ bestie edition ✨

okay so. imagine you got a farbfeld image and you need it to be a PAM. that's it. that's the whole job. ff2pam is a tiny little icon who does exactly one thing and does it flawlessly, no cap. 👑

🌸 NAME 🌸

ff2pam — convert farbfeld to PAM

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ff2pam

that's it. no flags. no arguments. she takes zero notes, she just works. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea, bestie: ff2pam reads a farbfeld(5) image straight from stdin, converts it into PAM — and specifically a 16-bit RGBA PAM, okay, don't forget the 16-bit part — and then writes the result out to stdout. 🫶

And if something goes wrong? If it's giving error energy? She doesn't just suffer in silence. She writes a diagnostic message to stderr so you actually know what happened. very considerate of her honestly. 😭

no filenames, no arguments, no drama — everything happens through stdin and stdout, so you pipe it like the main character you are. 🌈

✨ EXIT STATUS ✨

  • 0 — image processed successfully. slay. the conversion ate and left no crumbs. 🔥
  • 1 — an error occurred. 💀 something went sideways, check that stderr message.

💜 EXAMPLES 💜

The classic one-liner, the moment, the ritual:

$ ff2pam < image.ff > image.pam

And if your farbfeld is all bunched up in a bzip2 file, don't even worry about it, just pipe it through like so:

$ bunzip2 < image.ff.bz2 | ff2pam > image.pam

see how clean that is?? obsessed. 🌟

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> — the legend behind this whole thing, we love him for it. 🫶

suckless.org · 2018-04-11 · FF2PAM(1)

and that's the page, bestie!! 💖 go forth, convert your images, and remember: stdin in, stdout out, 16-bit RGBA always. periodt. ✨🧚‍♀️

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