PARSER(1)

💖 PARSER3 — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about parser3 — the Command Line and CGI interface for Parser 3 Language ✨ this page lives in the General Commands Manual section, and it's giving "small tool, big job" energy fr fr 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

parser3 [-h] [-c conffile] file

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

What does it actually do? It parses and executes file in the Parser 3 language. iconic, no notes. 💅

Now the config tea ☕ — here's how Parser decides where its settings live:

• If neither the -c option nor the environment variable CGI_PARSER_CONFIG is specified, Parser goes looking for configuration settings in the auto.p file beside the binary — meaning in the directory with the CGI-script itself 🎀 — and then in the default system-wide auto.p file.

So basically: neighbor first, then the system-wide one. bestie behavior honestly.

And when things go wrong? 😭 Parser makes records about errors to the error log file parser3.log, which is implicitly located in the same directory where the parser3 CGI script is. But listen — if Parser is not allowed to write to that file, errors get reported to the standard error stream instead. she adapts. we love a flexible queen. 🌈

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

A summary of options is included below — and yes, there are only two, she's low-maintenance 💜

• -h — Display usage information. that's your help flag, your "what do I even do here" button 🫶
• -c conffile — Use this conffile (/path/to/auto.p). you're hand-picking your config file, main character energy 👑

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🍓 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🍓

• Parser3 checks the environment variable CGI_PARSER_CONFIG if option -c is not specified. so like, if you didn't tell her which config to use out loud, she'll peek at the env var instead. 🙈
• If you would rather change the implicit location of parser3.log, you can explicitly specify it via stderr redirection or the environment variable CGI_PARSER_LOG. relocating the diary, essentially. 📔

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🧚 FILES 🧚

• /etc/parser3/auto.p — default parser3 configuration file. the system-wide one. the one she falls back to. 💖

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

For a more complete description of Parser3, look here:

http://www.parser.ru/en/

that's your lore deep-dive, go read it bestie 📚✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

parser3 was written by Alexandr Petrosian <paf@design.ru>. 💜

This manual page was written by Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpichev@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). so it's giving "made with love for Debian, shared with the world" 🌍💅

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and that's the whole page!! 🎀 this one lives under the Scripting Language section, page name PARSER(1) — shoutout to that footer, she's iconic, she's the Scripting Language manual, she said what she said. no cap. go parse something, bestie 🦋💖