HXCLEAN(1)

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✨ HXCLEAN(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to hxclean — one of the lil stars of the HTML-XML-utils manual. buckle up because this one is… a short read. 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

hxclean — apply heuristics to correct an HTML file 🧚

like, it rolls up to your messy HTML and goes "girl, let me fix you." heuristics!! it's not reading a spec, it's making choices. main character energy fr fr. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hxclean [ file ]

so you run it, and you may hand it a file. those square brackets? they're giving optional. one single file, that's the whole menu, no cap. 🦋

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

okay so. the entire description in the original page is, and I quote, verbatim:

[ToDo]

that's it. that's the description. iconic in the worst way possible 😭 the author literally left a sticky note where the explanation should be and dipped. not me reading a man page that's 100% placeholder 💀

so like, I'm not gonna make stuff up for you — that would be a vibe check fail and also a lie. what I can tell you is what's actually on the page: the description is [ToDo]. that's the whole thing. nothing about flags, nothing about what the heuristics are, nothing about output. we simply do not know from this page, and I'm not about to invent it. 🙈

if you need the real tea on what the heuristics do, go read the source or ask the author, because this man page is a ✨mystery✨. iykyk 🍓

and that's the whole page, bestie! 🎀 this lil gem ships as part of HTML-XML-utils, version 7.x, dated 10 Jul 2011 — yes, 2011, it's a vintage. still slaying in the group chat of Unix utilities. 💜 ✨

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