HACHOIR(1)

🦋 bestie, welcome to HACHOIR(1) 🦋

okay so, this page lives in the User Commands corner of the manual, and it's giving "tiny tool, big main character energy". ✨ It's Hachoir, and she's an interactive file explorer built on urwid (that's the ncurses one, iykyk). 🫶

💖 NAME 💖

Hachoir — interactive file explorer using urwid (ncurses) 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The vibe is: you point it at a file and it lets you poke around inside it. Here's the exact way you call her:

usage: hachoir-urwid [options] filename

That's it. That's the whole summoning ritual. 🎀

🎀 options: 🎀

• -h, --help — shows you this very help message and then dips. ✨
• --preload=PRELOAD — how many fields get preloaded on every single read. Number of fields, fr fr.
• --path=PATH — the initial path to focus on, so you don't have to scroll around like a lost little guy. 🧚
• --parser=PARSER — force a specific parser instead of letting her guess. You pass its identifier, so use the real one, no cap. 🔥
• --offset=OFFSET — skip the first bytes of the input file. bye bye header, we don't know her. 💀
• --parser-list — lists all the parsers and then exits. A little menu of possibilities, obsessed. 📋
• --parser-list... no wait, that was the last one. Moving on. 😭
• --profiler — runs the profiler. Yes, she's doing numbers on herself. 💅
• --profile-display — forces the screen to update between each event. Every. Single. Event. 🌈
• --size=SIZE — the maximum size, in bytes, of the input file. Cap it, bestie. 🎀
• --hide-value — don't display the value. Shy behavior, honestly. 🙈
• --hide-size — don't display the size either. She's mysterious now. 💜
• --version — displays the version and exits. Quick little flex. ⭐

💅 Urwid: 💅

This next batch is all about the urwid explorer — the options of the urwid explorer itself. 🦋

• --preload=PRELOAD — number of fields to preload at each read. (yes, she's listed up there too — the urwid explorer is just built like that, okay?)

hmm, actually bestie, let me not invent anything here — the original just says these are the options of the urwid explorer, so here's the full urwid set again, exactly as given:

• --preload=PRELOAD — Number of fields to preload at each read
• --path=PATH — Initial path to focus on
• --parser=PARSER — Use the specified parser (use its identifier)
• --offset=OFFSET — Skip first bytes of input file
• --parser-list — List all parsers then exit
• --profiler — Run profiler
• --profile-display — Force update of the screen beetween each event
• --size=SIZE — Maximum size of bytes of input file
• --hide-value — Don't display value
• --hide-size — Don't display size
• --version — Display version and exit

🌈 Hachoir library: 🌈

And nested right inside all of that, we've got the options that configure the Hachoir library itself. 🫶

• --verbose — verbose mode. She will talk. 🗣️
• --log=LOG — write the log into a file. Name your file, keep the receipts. 📝
• --quiet — quiet mode, which means it won't display warnings. Shhh. 🤫
• --debug — debug mode. For when you need to see everything. 🔍

💀 heads up, bestie: this page is short and sweet and that's the whole list — every flag, every value, every default-free option, all of it, no crumbs left behind. Don't go inventing extras, okay? 🙈

and that's the page!! you ate that, honestly. 👑

this manual is Hachoir urwid version 1.1, dated September 2008 — an icon, a legend, and she is the moment. 🌸 periodt. 💅✨