lincredits(1)

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, in debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ lincredits(1) — hey bestie, let's beautify some CREDITS files ✨

okay so real quick, before we dive in: this is lincredits, page 1 of the General Commands Manual. that's the vibe. now let's GO 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

lincredits — generate beautified versions of the Linux CREDITS and MAINTAINERS files

like. it takes those crusty raw files and makes them pretty. that's the whole job. iconic behavior fr fr ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lincredits [options] CREDITS-file

see that? options first if you want 'em, then the file. no file, no glow-up. simple as 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so this manual page briefly documents the lincredits command — and I do mean briefly, it's giving minimal, it's giving "we said what we said" 😌

lincredits is a program that beautifes the Linux CREDITS and MAINTAINERS files into one of three supported formats: plain text, LaTeX and HTML. pick your fighter bestie, they're all valid.

the one thing you genuinely cannot skip: you must specify the path of a valid CREDITS or MAINTAINERS file to be formatted. usually that's /usr/src/linux/CREDITS — that's the classic spot, the main character location 👑

no path = no output. it's not being mean, it just literally needs to know which file you're talking about 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). yes, that's how the original writes it, and I am simply passing the message along, no notes 💀

a summary of options are included below. and bestie, there are only five, so you have zero excuses not to read all of them 🌈

  • -h, --help — show summary of options. the "wait what were the flags again" button. no shame in it 🙈
  • -o, --output <filename> — send output to the specified files, instead of standard output. so instead of yelling into your terminal, it writes it somewhere real 📝
  • --text — format the output as plain text. this is the default, so if you do nothing, congrats, you already did it 💅
  • --latex — format the output as LaTeX. for when you're feeling academic and a little fancy 🧚
  • --html — format the output as HTML. for the web girlies, the browser babes, the <div> divas ⭐

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

shoutout to Chris for writing the docs, and shoutout to Debian for hosting the whole thing. but may be used by others — so yes, that means you, bestie, you're invited too 🫶

and that's the page!! you just read lincredits(1), from the General Commands Manual — go beautify something, you've got this 💖✨🎀

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