OS-AUTO...-PREVIEW(1)

💖 OS-AUTO...-PREVIEW(1) — User Contributed Perl Documentation 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about the most iconic little Perl script in the needle-preview game 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

os-autoinst-generate-needle-preview — it generates an .svg file that slaps the needle info right on top of it as an overlay. like a little annotated glow-up for your needle. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

So there's basically one way to run this thing and it's give it a bunch of files, either piped in through stdin or just handed over as arguments. Both are valid, both are slay. 🦋

Use a list of files (using stdin or arguments):

ls -1 *.json | os-autoinst-generate-needle-preview -
os-autoinst-generate-needle-preview *.json

Look for a specific tag:

grep "DESKTOP-gnome" -l *.json | os-autoinst-generate-needle-preview -

💡 real talk: notice how that - is just sitting there at the end of the piped commands? that's the vibe check for "read the list from stdin, bestie", so don't lose it. iykyk 😌

🫶 a lil sign-off 🫶

this page came to you from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-22, and it lives under the OS-AUTO...-PREVIEW(1) header. periodt. 💖✨🎀