ktx_help(1)

📦 version 4.4.2, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

ktx_help(1) 💅✨

okay so real quick — this is the ktx_help(1) page from the KTX Tools Reference manual, and bestie, it's literally just the glow-up guide for how to ask ktx for help. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ktx_help — ktx help 🫶

Displays help information about the ktx tool. that's the whole vibe. it's the "hey can u explain urself" command. iconic behavior honestly 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ktx help [option...] [command]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ktx help displays the man page of a specific ktx command, and you tell it which one with the command argument. very "name drop the one u wanna know about" energy 💅

On Windows systems the man pages are opened with the system default browser in html format. on systems derived from Unix the man pages are opened with the man command. fr fr, it just picks the right glow-up route for ur OS ✨

To support custom install locations the tool first tries to use the man files relative to the executable and falls back to the system man pages. it's giving "i checked my own bag first, then the communal closet" 👜

command specifies which command's man page will be displayed. If command is missing the main ktx tool man page will be displayed. yes — leave it blank and it just explains itself. main character energy 👑

Possible choices are 🍓:

  • compare
  • create
  • deflate
  • encode
  • extract
  • info
  • transcode
  • validate
  • help

like, the whole friend group, all accounted for 😭💜

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — Print this usage message and exit. (the "explain the explainer" moment 🙈)
  • -v, --version — Print the version number of this program and exit. (for when u gotta know exactly which era of this tool ur dealing with 💀)

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

  • 0 — Success ✅ (ate, no crumbs)
  • 1 — Command line error 🙃 (u typed something cursed)
  • 2 — IO failure 💀 (the files said "not today")
  • 3 — Invalid input file 🫠 (that file is lowkey sus)
  • 4 — Runtime or library error 😭 (not us, not our fault, blame the library)
  • 5 — Not supported state or operation 🚫 (we literally cannot)
  • 6 — Requested feature is not yet implemented ⏳ (coming soon to a future version near u)

🌈 HISTORY 🌈

Version 4.0

  • Initial version 🎉 (day one. the origin story. the birth of an icon.)

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

  • Mátyás Császár [Vader], RasterGrid www.rastergrid.com
  • Daniel Rákos, RasterGrid www.rastergrid.com

absolute legends, both of them 👑👑

💖 and that's the page bestie — go forth and ktx help responsibly ✨

mwah 💋 — signed off at Version 0.0.0, dated Tue Jan 1 1980 00:00:00. yes that date is real, no we're not gonna question it 🙈 🌸

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