FOOMATIC-FIX-XML(1)

πŸ“¦ version 4.0.13, in centos-stream 10, centos-stream 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ FOOMATIC-FIX-XML ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for foomatic-fix-xml, a lil section-1 General Commands Manual situation from the Foomatic Project. it's giving "tiny cleanup tool that fixes one very specific problem" and honestly? iconic behavior. πŸ’…


🌸 NAME 🌸

foomatic-fix-xml β€” Remove leading blank lines from Foomatic database


πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

foomatic-fix-xml [DBDIR]

πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

so like, here's the vibe check: you run the foomatic-fix-xml command if two things are true about you πŸ‘‡

  • you have compiled foomatic-perl-data against libxml 1.x, and
  • you have old database entries with a leading blank line 🫠

that's it. that's the whole job. it removes those leading blank lines from the Foomatic database. no cap. πŸ”₯

real talk: if neither of those things describes your setup, this command is lowkey not for you, and that's okay bestie πŸ’œ

and yeah, the optional [DBDIR] argument is right there in the synopsis, sitting in brackets like the main character it is ✨


πŸ¦‹ SEE ALSO πŸ¦‹

(no SEE ALSO section in the original, so we're keeping it exactly that way β€” nothing invented, periodt)


Foomatic Project Β· 2014-08-21

and that's the whole page, babe πŸŽ€ this manual page came to you straight from the Foomatic Project, dated 2014-08-21 β€” yes, she's been serving since way back, and she still works πŸ’– go fix those blank lines, you absolute legend πŸ‘‘πŸ¦‹

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