NYLIST(1)

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✨ NYLIST(1) ✨ — the nylist glow-up 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to nylist(1) from the General Commands Manual — she's giving very niche, very powerful, and honestly kind of iconic 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

nylist — the tool that lists the contents of specialized-format patches. periodt.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

nylist pam options [ print ] [ .go ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so nylist is one of the programs in the Nypatchy suite — the whole little friend group of tools for working with Patchy Master Files (aka PAM files, iykyk) 🫶. if you need the full lore, go see nypatchy(1).

specifically? she prints a listing of what's inside those files — including line numbers ✨. that's her whole thing, and she ate.

🌈 USAGE 🌈

okay so the parameters, let me break it down for you 🧚:

  • pam — the name of the PAM file. a default extension of .car is assumed, so you don't gotta type it.
  • print — the output file to write to. if you omit it, the default is standard output. very chill of her.
  • options — a sequence of single-character flags. yes, single characters, we're keeping it cute and compact.

and listen 👑: the command should be ended with .go — unless you actually want to enter the Nypatchy interactive shell. then by all means, go off.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

heads up bestie: options should be given as a single string of characters with no space separation and no use of the - character — the one exception is that you can use - in place of the options field if you don't want any options at all. also, alphabetic options are not case-sensitive, so do not stress about caps 🔥
  • E — page ejects that were forced in the PAM file with +SEQ,QEJECT are honored. tiny catch though: this only works if the S option is also given 🙈
  • H — print help information only. that's it, that's the whole vibe.
  • S — start each new deck on a new page. fresh page, fresh start, main character energy ⭐
  • n — for n a number from 0 to 4 inclusive, assume 58, 62, 74, 84, or 98 lines per page in the output respectively. (the default is 110 lines per page, no cap.) and for n a number greater than or equal to 20, use that specific number of lines per page — literally whatever number you said. 💜
  • + — inhibit the initial page-eject. no first-page drama, we're going straight in.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole squad, fr fr:

fcasplit(1), nycheck(1), nydiff(1), nyindex(1), nymerge(1), nypatchy(1), nyshell(1), nysynopt(1), nytidy(1), yexpand(1)

alsoooo — the reference manual for the Nypatchy suite of programs is available in compressed PostScript format at this URL 👇

http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/psdir/p5refman.ps.gz

and one more little gem: running the command nylist help .no also gives some brief help on usage 🍓

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

this manual page was written by Kevin McCarty <kmccarty@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others 💖). it is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (at your choice).

Copyright (C) Kevin B. McCarty, 2008.

and that's the page, bestie 🦋 — sourced from the General Commands Manual, dated Mar 12, 2008 (the footer's got the NYLIST(1) energy too, but we already said hi at the top 💜). slay, go list some patches 💅✨

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