ldraw-mklist(1)

✨ ldraw-mklist — the manual page bestie 💅

okay so this is the manpage for ldraw-mklist, living in the User Manuals section (section 1, iykyk). It's a little command-line icon that makes parts lists, and honestly? It's giving utility. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

ldraw-mklist — bestie, it creates parts.lst files ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ldraw-mklist [options] [-i parts ] [-o file ]

like… that's the whole vibe. options, then maybe an input dir, then maybe an output file. no cap. 💜

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So ldraw-mklist looks at a parts directory and generates a parts.lst file out of it, so that other programs can use it. That's literally it, that's the whole job. It's a little builder bee for your LEGO parts library 🐝🌸

✨ OPTIONS ✨

The way this thing has FIFTEEN options?? Obsessed. Let's go one by one, no skipping, periodt 💅

• -h — show a help message. Your little "what do I do" bestie 🫶
• -n — sort by Number. Numbers first, slay.
• -d — sort by Description. Alphabetical era 🔤
• -c — check for duplicate descriptions. Note bestie: parts.lst stays unchanged when you do this. It's just peeking, not touching 🙈
• -m — don't skip parts with a "~Moved to xxx" description. Keep them in the list, main character energy 👑
• -~ — skip parts with a ~ description, like "~Winch 2 x 4 x 2 Top". (Yes the tilde gets a whole flag. Iconic.) ⭐
• -i <dir> — input directory. Default is "PARTS" in the current directory 📁
• -o <file> — output filename. Default is "parts.lst" in the current directory 📝
• -f — force it to finish. No prompts. It's gonna do the thing and you're gonna let it 🔥
• -q — quiet mode. No warnings, and no prompts. Silent, mysterious, unbothered 💀
• -8 — use 8.3 names for compatibility. Retro vibes fr fr 🕰️
• -t — truncating descriptions to fit in an 80 char terminal window. Fitting in, respectfully 📐
• -r — ragged filename column. It sizes the column to fit short filenames. Cozy, no wasted space 🧚
• -l — truncate long descriptions at 64 chars. Snip snip ✂️
• -v — print verbose info. Super useful for debugging, ngl 🐛🔍

heads up bestie: -f and -q both mean no prompts, and -q also kills the warnings. If you're scripting this, those are your girls. 💅

🍓 FILES 🍓

• /usr/share/ldraw/ — the default location of the parts library 📚
• /usr/share/ldraw/parts.lst — the default location of the parts list 📄

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Johannes Schauer <j.schauer at email dot de> — thank you for your service, legend 🫡💖

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• ldview(1)
• ldglite(5)

go check those out too, they're part of the same little friend group 🫶

and that's the page!! written for Linux, from JULY 2013 — yeah she's a vintage icon and she still ate 💅✨ bye bestie, go make some parts.lst files 🎀