JARGON(1)

📦 version 4.0.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

✨ JARGON — the manual page for jargon, from the General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie so you want to look stuff up in the Jargon File without, like, actually scrolling through it yourself? say less. this is your girl. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

jargon — find an entry in the jargon file 🔍

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

jargon [-s] [entryname]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the vibe: the jargon command goes hunting through the jargon file for an entry that contains the name you asked for. found it? iconic. it fires up infobrowser and drops you right there. 🎯

didn't give it a name at all? no problem, no stress — it just starts infobrowser on the jargon file itself and lets you vibe. 🦋

but if you did name something and it's literally nowhere to be found? don't panic, it doesn't just leave you hanging. it starts infobrowser pointing at the appropriate index page instead. so you still land somewhere useful, periodt. ✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -s — dump the entry straight to standard output using info. meaning: it shows you the entry in a noninteractive way, no browsing, no scrolling, just the goods. 📤 if the entry can't be found, nothing gets output — silence, bestie, that's the whole response. ⚠️ and heads up: if you pass this option, it is an error if entryname isn't specified. so like, -s and nothing else? that's a no. 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the Jargon File itself is a common heritage of the hacker culture — a whole communal thing, we love that for it. it's currently edited by Eric Raymond (esr@snark.thyrsus.com). 💜

this look up program was written by Mark Baker (mbaker@iee.org). 🔥

and this manual page was written by Peter Maydell (pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk). 🌈

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

info(1)

fr fr, that's the whole page. go look up some jargon. 🌸

— 💫 this came from Debian Linux, dated 23 November 1997. iconic since the 90s, no cap. 💅

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