how-many-source(1)

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

💖 how-many-source — the what-utils era 💖

okay bestie, welcome to how-many-source, part of the what-utils family 🎀 this one's a lil baby of a tool but it does something genuinely cute, so let's go

✨ NAME ✨

how-many-source — count the number of source packages in Ubuntu 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

how-many-source [-r|--release] [-v|--verbose]

like… that's it. that's the whole vibe check. two options, both optional, no notes 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so how-many-source(1) is a simple program whose entire main character moment is: counting the number of source packages in Ubuntu ✨

no cap, that's the job. it counts them. it tells you how many. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

here's her in the wild, doing exactly what she says on the tin:

$ how-many-source -r trusty 25671

look at that. trusty went in, 25671 came out, and the whole thing took zero drama 🙈🌸

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems — but bestie, it may be used by others too, it's not gatekept 🫶

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 📜

and 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 — go read it, it's giving ✨ legal ✨ but make it libre 🌈

ngl there's not a single flag explanation in this one, just the synopsis and the vibe — so don't come for me, i'm only telling you what the page tells you 💀

what-utils · 18 Apr 2016 — and that's the whole page, mwah 💖 slay, bye bestie 🦋🎀

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