GNIALL(1)

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✨ GNIALL — bestie edition 💖

okay so you found gniall in the (1) section of the manual — that's the General Commands Manual for all you keeping score at home — and honestly? she's giving study buddy. she's giving language learning but make it ✨GNOME✨. let's get into it, no cap. 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

gniall — a language learning program. that's it, that's the whole vibe. a whole little program whose entire job is helping you learn languages. obsessed. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gniall [OPTIONS|FILE]...

so like. you can throw options at her, OR you can hand her a file. or both?? the brackets said OPTIONS|FILE and the ... said "and more of that energy, bestie". go off. 🌈

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so this manual page documents gniall briefly — lowercase b, briefly, that's literally what it says — and gniall is a language learning program. for GNOME. that's the whole rundown, she's not doing a TED talk here, it's a quick little intro so you know what you're looking at. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay so here's the tea on flags:

  • gniall accepts the standard GNOME application options. like, the normal ones every GNOME app rolls with. iconic behavior, no notes. 👑
  • if you wanna know what those options actually are, go ahead and run gniall --help and she will tell you all about them. that's your cheat code. 🔥

and then the fun part:

  • the program accepts a single plain text file as an argument. one. just one. a single plain text file, bestie, don't be greedy. 🙈
  • that file gets loaded and interpreted as if the user has entered the file contents line by line. like, it's the exact same thing as you sitting there typing every line in yourself, except you didn't, because you wrote a file like a main character. 💅
heads up: it's a single plain text file. the SYNOPSIS is out here looking all plural with that ... but the description said single, so don't come for me when you stack ten files and she's like "ma'am". 🍓

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

this manual page was written by Samuel Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but like, it may be used by others too, she's not gatekeeping. 🧚

and that's the whole page, pookie. 🌸 this little writeup is dated November 29, 2000, straight out of the General Commands Manual, and it lives in the GNIALL(1) section — so if you ever need to find her again, you know exactly where she's at. periodt. 💖⭐

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