GET-AREACODES-LIST(1)

📦 version 1.18, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 get-areacodes-list — bestie's guide to snagging fresh area codes 💖

okay so this is the get-areacodes-list manual page, straight out of the NCID manual collection, and it is genuinely so much simpler than it sounds. let's go 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

get-areacodes-list — fetch the latest valid-area-codes derived from wikipedia

no cap, that's the whole job. it goes and gets the list. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

get-areacodes-list [-h] [-V]

that's it. two flags. two. the bar is on the floor and we love that for it. 🎀

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea ☕ — the get-areacodes-list script uses wget to construct a valid-area-codes file, and it pulls that info from the wikipedia List of North American Numbering Plan area codes.

heads up bestie: you will only need to run this once or twice a year. it is NOT a daily-driver situation. it's giving seasonal. it's giving "set a reminder and forget about it." 🌈

once it's downloaded, valid-area-codes gets added to the tests performed by the hangup-fakenum External Hangup Extension script. so like, the thing you downloaded becomes a thing that does work for you. iconic behavior, honestly. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h — prints this help and exits. the classic "help me bestie" flag. 🫶
  • -V — displays the version and exits. for when you just gotta know which one you're running. ✨

💅 REQUIREMENTS 💅

  • NCID: release 1.7 or newer — so if you're on something ancient, this is your sign to update. no cap.
  • wget: fetches files using http — the little downloader that could. 🦋

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /usr/share/ncid/sys/get-areacodes-list
  • prefix3=/etc/ncid/valid-area-codes

that second one is where the magic lands, bestie. 🧚

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

iykyk, go read the friends. 🔥

and that's the whole page, fr fr. this one came out of the NCID manual, dated 2012-11-8, and it's the GET-AREACODES-LIST(1) page — so go run it like, twice a year and then go live your life. mwah. 💖👑

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