HFST-CONCATENATE(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

hfst-concatenate — okay so bestie, this one concatenates two transducers. Two of them. Together. Slay. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hfst-concatenate [OPTIONS...] [INFILE1 [INFILE2]]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Concatenate two transducers. That's the whole vibe. You hand it two transducers, it glues them into one, main character energy only. 👑

💖 Common options:

• -h, --help — print the help message (your little bestie when you're lost, no cap)
• -V, --version — print version info
• -v, --verbose — print verbosely while processing, so you get the whole play-by-play
• -q, --quiet — only print fatal errors and the output you actually requested, nothing extra
• -s, --silent — alias of --quiet, same energy, different letter

🎀 Input/Output options:

• -1, --input1=INFILE1 — read the first input transducer from INFILE1
• -2, --input2=INFILE2 — read the second input transducer from INFILE2
• -C, --do-not-convert — do not allow transducers to be converted into the same type
• -o, --output=OUTFILE — write results to OUTFILE

🧚 Harmonization:

• -H, --do-not-harmonize — do not harmonize symbols.
• -F, --harmonize-flags — harmonize flag diacritics.

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If OUTFILE, or either INFILE1 or INFILE2, is missing or -, standard streams will be used. INFILE1, INFILE2, or both, must be specified. 🫶

The format of the result depends on the format of INFILE1 and INFILE2; both should have the same format. Like, matching outfits. Coordinate, bestie. 🌈

The operation is applied pairwise for INFILE1 and INFILE2, and they must have the same number of transducers. But — plot twist — if INFILE2 has only one transducer, the operation is applied for each transducer in INFILE1, keeping the second transducer constant. Iconic behaviour honestly. ✨

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

hfst-concatenate -o catdog.hfst cat.hfst dog.hfst

concatenates cat.hfst with dog.hfst and writes results to catdog.hfst 🐱🐶

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💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

Found a bug? Not the fun kind? Report it to <hfst-bugs@helsinki.fi> or slide directly into our bug tracker at: <https://github.com/hfst/hfst/issues> 🙈

• hfst-concatenate home page: <https://github.com/hfst/hfst/wiki/HfstConcatenate>
• General help using HFST software: <https://github.com/hfst/hfst/wiki>

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2017 University of Helsinki, License GPLv3: GNU GPL version 3 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 😭 fr fr, read the fine print.

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And that's the whole page, bestie — this was the HFST hfst-concatenate manual, from the HFST crew, dated August 2018. Go concatenate something gorgeous. 💖✨🦋