name-search(1)

📦 version 1.78, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay so this is the name-search page, from the bikeshed manual, section 1 — and bestie, it does exactly one iconic thing:

name-search — check if a certain name is available for use on a handful of open source related sites 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

name-search $@

that's it. that's the whole vibe. $@ and go 🌈

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so name-search is a script, and what it does is it goes and checks whether a given namespace is available in a few different places, namely:

  • the Ubuntu apt archive 🍓
  • Github.com 👑
  • Launchpad.net 🚀

and also whether domain names might be available 🌐

fr fr, that's the whole point: this may be helpful when you're selecting the name of an open source project, for instance. naming things is the hardest problem in computer science and this little script is your bestie for it 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read these too, they're lowkey part of the lore:

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

this manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others, no gatekeeping here 💖).

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation. slay, legally speaking 📜✨

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt 🔗

and that's the whole page, bestie — this was the bikeshed version, dated 1 Oct 2014 🎀 go name your project something iconic, ily, bye 💜

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