how-many-binary(1)

📦 version 1.5, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 how-many-binary — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is how-many-binary(1), a lil utility from the what-utils fam, and honestly? it does exactly one thing and it does it flawlessly. no notes. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

how-many-binary — counts how many binary packages are chillin' in Ubuntu 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

how-many-binary [-a|--arch ARCHITECTURE] [-r|--release] [-v|--verbose]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, how-many-binary(1) is a simple program that counts the number of binary packages in Ubuntu. that's it. that's the whole personality. and yet it EATS every single time 👑

💫 EXAMPLE 💫

here's the vibe, fr fr:

$ how-many-binary -a amd64 -r trusty 44880

iconic.</purgle>

wait bestie, quick lil tour of the flags while we're here: -a (or --arch) takes an ARCHITECTURE, -r (or --release) is the release, and -v (or --verbose) makes it chatty. no cap. 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation. 🫶

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt. ✨

and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this whole page came to you from what-utils, dated 18 Apr 2016. slay, stay counting those packages, mwah 💋🌸

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