HC(1)

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💖 HC(1) — the httpcode manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the General Commands Manual page for hc (aka httpcode), and honestly? she's a lil legend. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

httpcode — she explains the meaning of an HTTP status code, right there on your command line. no browser tab, no vibes-based guessing, just answers. iconic behavior 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hc [ options ] [ code ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page documents briefly the httpcode commands.

httpcode is a little utility that explains the meaning of an HTTP status code on the command line. that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it flawlessly, no cap ✨

💜 OPTIONS 💜

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-`). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

  • -h, --help — Show summary of options. when you're lost, she's got you 🥺
  • -s SEARCH, --search=SEARCH — Search for a code by name or description. Search text may contain regular expressions. so yes, you can go full regex gremlin in here 🔥

🎀 USAGE 🎀

Lists all available HTTP status codes and their description:

hc

Explain 405 status code:

hc 405

Search code(s) by description (case-insensitive):

hc -s too

Filter codes with a regex

hc 30[12]

Use an 'x' for any digit

hc 1xx
not me running hc 1xx and getting my whole life together 💀 genuinely so satisfying.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

httpcode was written by Ruslan Spivak <ruslan.spivak@gmail.com>. 💖

This manual page was written by Khalid El Fathi <khalid@elfathi.fr>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). 🫶

🌈 and that's the page, babe 🌈

This was the February 29, 2012 edition of HC(1) from the General Commands Manual — yeah, a leap day drop, which is lowkey main character energy of the manual to have. stay slaying, go look up your status codes, periodt. 💅✨🎀

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