MINCEXPAND(1)

💖 MINCEXPAND 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to mincexpand from the MINC User's Guide — she's a tiny little helper and she's literally about to make your compressed files behave 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

mincexpand — expands a compressed minc file, if necessary. no cap, "if necessary" is doing a LOT of work in that sentence and we love her for it 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mincexpand [<options>] <infile> [<outfile>]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: mincexpand takes a minc file that's been compressed, packed, gzipped or zipped and expands it into a temporary file, using gunzip (or zcat or pcat, depending on what it's working with, iykyk). Then it prints out the name of the new file. 📢

But like… plot twist 👑 — if the input file is not compressed, then nothing is done at all and it just prints the original file name. Iconic. Zero drama. Main character energy.

Then a second line gets printed, and this one tells you whether that name belongs to a new temporary file ("Temporary") or to the original file ("Original"). 🎀

And if you don't give it an output file name? Don't even stress, bestie — the program generates its own. 💖

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -header_only — expands only enough of the file to be able to read the header. just a lil peek, a taste, a vibe check 👀
• -all_data — expands the whole entire file. this is the default, so she's already doing this unless you say otherwise ✨
• -name_only — prints out only the file name, not the status (Temporary or Original). keeping it mysterious 🙈
• -help — prints a summary of the command-line options and exits. your girl is here to help fr fr 🫶
• -version — prints the program's version number and exits. 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Peter Neelin 🎀

⭐ COPYRIGHTS ⭐

Copyright © 1995 by Peter Neelin

okay and that's the whole page, bestie — go expand something 💀🌸

so yeah, that's mincexpand from the MINC User's Guide, dated $Date: 2004-05-20 21:52:08 $ — oldie but a goodie, and she ate, periodt 💜✨