gflags2man(1)

💖 gflags2man(1) — User Commands 💖

okay so. bestie. this is the man page for gflags2man, and i need you to know before we even start that it is unhinged in the best way. it's a User Commands page. it's giving ✨chaos✨. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

gflags2man — b'Traceback (most recent call last):'

yes. that is genuinely the entire NAME entry. the name of this command is, per the manual, a bytes-literal traceback header. no cap. the man page is out here documenting itself as a crash 💀 and honestly? main character energy.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gflags2man [FLAGS]...

so you run it, you hand it some [FLAGS]..., and that's the vibe. short, sweet, deeply suspicious.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the DESCRIPTION section — the part where a man page is supposed to lovingly explain what the tool does — is, verbatim, a Python traceback. like, the whole thing. every b' prefix and every line break that man-page wrapping mangled is still in there, which is lowkey the most iconic part, because somebody's --help output got scraped straight into a manual page and nobody stopped it.

here it is in all its glory, un-wrapped so you can actually read it:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "gflags2man", line 545, in <module>
    main(sys.argv)
  File "gflags2man", line 527, in main
    argv = FLAGS(argv)  # handles help as well
  File "/build/python-gflags-V_K9FA/python-gflags-1.5.1/gflags.py", line 1177, in __call__
    flag.Parse(arg)
  File "/build/python-gflags-V_K9FA/python-gflags-1.5.1/gflags.py", line 2238, in Parse
    flags = str(FLAGS)
  File "/build/python-gflags-V_K9FA/python-gflags-1.5.1/gflags.py", line 1221, in __str__
    return self.GetHelp()
  File "/build/python-gflags-V_K9FA/python-gflags-1.5.1/gflags.py", line 1231, in GetHelp
    modules.sort()
AttributeError: 'dict_keys' object has no attribute 'sort'

let's break down the journey, because it is a journey 🧚

• File "gflags2man", line 545, in <module> → it calls main(sys.argv).
• File "gflags2man", line 527, in main → it does argv = FLAGS(argv) # handles help as well.
• File "/build/python-gflags-V_K9FA/python-gflags-1.5.1/gflags.py", line 1177, in __call__ → flag.Parse(arg).
• File "/build/python-gflags-V_K9FA/python-gflags-1.5.1/gflags.py", line 2238, in Parse → flags = str(FLAGS).
• File "/build/python-gflags-V_K9FA/python-gflags-1.5.1/gflags.py", line 1221, in __str__ → return self.GetHelp().
• File "/build/python-gflags-V_K9FA/python-gflags-1.5.1/gflags.py", line 1231, in GetHelp → modules.sort().
• and then the plot twist that ate everything: AttributeError: 'dict_keys' object has no attribute 'sort'.

heads up bestie: that last line is not a warning about something, it's the actual error text this page is made of. it is, quite literally, the content. modules.sort() got called on a dict_keys object and dict_keys does not have a sort attribute, so 💥.

also, real talk, the original renders every single one of those lines wrapped in b'...' bytes-literal quotes, with the man-page line breaks chopping the strings mid-sentence. i've straightened the wrapping so your eyes survive, but nothing got added or removed — same files, same line numbers, same gflags.py build path, same error. iykyk 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

the OPTIONS section is empty. like, empty empty. nothing. not a single -a, --all, or cursed little flag in sight. it's giving void. it's giving the options went to get milk and never came back 🥛😭

so if you came here looking for what [FLAGS]... in the synopsis actually does — yeah, this page is not going to tell you. the section exists, it's just standing there, silent, glowing faintly. respect it.

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2020 Google. Gflags2man created this page from "gflags2man --help" output.

Gflags2man was written by Dan Christian. Note that the date on this page is the modification date of gflags2man.

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and that's the page!! this was gflags2man, from gflags2man, dated 02/06/20, in the gflags2man(1) era 💜 stan a manual page that documents its own crash and then signs off like nothing happened. bye bestie, go touch some grass 🌱💖