HLINS(1)

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💖 HLINS(1) — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, gather round — this is the manual page for hlins, section 1 of the General Commands Manual. Yes that's a real thing. Sit down, hydrate, let's go. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

hlins — insert url's into html documents 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hlins [options] [infile]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So basically hlins is that girl 💅 — she slides hypertext links into your html documents, and she does it according to one or several data bases that map addresses (url's, bestie, url's) onto names. Iconic behaviour, honestly.

And like, she was designed for inserting links for persons, which means she's not out here being clueless: she knows about abbreviations of first and middle names, and she's also totally fine with you tolerating the dropping of the last part of a composite last name. She gets it. She's not gonna be weird about it. ✨

Now, the logistics:

  • If no file argument is given, then input is taken from stdin. 📥
  • When no output option (peep the OPTIONS section below, bestie) is given, then output goes to stdout. 📤

And fr fr, if you want the complete description — like the whole lore — see the documentation in html format. That's where the deep cuts live. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

hlins follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (--). We love consistency. We love a format. 😌

  • -o, --output-file file — Write to file instead of standard output. 💌
  • -h, --help — Show a summary of options. Your little cheat sheet, bestie. 📝
  • -v, --version — Show the version of the program. Who are you talking to rn 🫶
  • -q, --quiet — Suppress diagnostic output. Shhh. Silence. Zen. 🤫
  • -db, --data-bases files ... — Use files ... as data bases. 📚
  • -m, --modify files ... — Don't act as filter but perform in-place modifications of files. ⚠️ in-place, bestie — she's editing your actual files, no takebacks, be brave
  • -R, --recursive — Recursively descend into directories and act on all files with names ending on .html. 🌀 (yes, .html, exactly that, no cap)
  • -td, --tmp-dir dir — Use directory dir to create temporary files. 🗂️
  • --db-to-html — List the address data bases in HTML format to stdout. 🎀

✨ ENVIRONMENT ✨

  • TMPDIR — default directory for creating temporay files. (that typo is in the original, we keep the original, always 💜)

✨ VERSION ✨

This manual pages describes version 0.39. Yes, "this manual pages". She said what she said. 🌸

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>. 🫡 absolute legend, we thank her for her service

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one dropped July 25, 2000, straight out of the General Commands Manual for version 0.39 — go forth, insert urls, slay, and always keep your last composite name parts optional 🎀✨🦋

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