NAMECHECK(1)

💖 NAMECHECK ✨

okay bestie, meet namecheck — the lil tool that checks whether your project names are already taken. yes. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🌸 ABOUT 🌸

so here's the situation. this is a simple tool that automates testing your project names across the most common Open Source / Free Software hosting environments. no cap. 🦋

every new project needs a name. and ideally those names are unique. and the thing is — coming up with names is hard, and testing to make sure they're not already in use is time-consuming. 😭 like, agonizing. UNLESS you have a tool such as this one. periodt. 👑

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🎀 CUSTOMIZATION 🎀

the script, exactly as it is, contains a list of sites and patterns to test against. that's the built-in lineup. ✨

• if those patterns aren't sufficient for you? no problem bestie — you may create your own additions and add them to the script. 💖
• and if you want your own version of the patterns, you may save them into the file ~/.namecheckrc 🫶

not me telling you the config file path like it's a secret handshake. ~/.namecheckrc. iykyk. 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Steve -- http://www.steve.org.uk/

(iconic. legend behavior. we stan.) 🌟

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📜 LICENSE 📜

Copyright (c) 2008 by Steve Kemp. All rights reserved. 💀 (yes the drama of it, but it's standard, breathe)

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 🌈

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this one came from the Debian Utilities crew, dated 2026-09-21, version NAMECHECK(1). slay, go name your project, and go check it first. mwah 💋🧚💜