PESCETTI(1)

💖 PESCETTI(1) — the general commands manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so pescetti lives in section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and this is literally the whole vibe of it: Pseudo-Duplimate Generator. yes that's its whole government name. slay. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

pescetti — Pseudo-Duplimate Generator 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pescetti

that's it. that's the whole thing. no arguments, no fuss, just vibes 🦋

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so real talk: this manual page documents briefly the pescetti command. that's the assignment, and it ate. ✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

here's the menu of available options and what they do, bestie. and this is the important part — you must specify exactly one from --demo, --generate or --load. exactly one. not two, not zero. pick your fighter. 🫶

• --help — prints the help text. classic. iconic. never not useful.
• --demo — demonstration mode. generates one hand with permutations and the tutorial for how to use them. it's giving tutorial era 💖
• --generate=N — generate N random boards 🎲
• --load=boards.txt — load boards+analysis from boards.txt
• --load-dds=boards.dds — load boards from boards.dds in dds format
• --load-analysis=tricks.txt — load analysis from tricks.txt
• --permutations=permutations.txt — generate the permutations and save them to the given file
• --curtains=curtains.txt — save curtain cards to file curtains.txt
• --save=boards.txt — save the boards+analysis to boards.txt
• --save-dds=boards.dds — save the boards to boards.dds in dds format
• --save-analysis=tricks.txt — save the analysis to tricks.txt
• --format=html|txt|pdf — set the output mode to the given format 🎨
• --title=title — set the title for the output ✍️
• --output=hands.txt — print the hands to hands.txt, rather than to standard output
• --stats — generate statistics about the set of boards; included in the hands output 📊
• --analyze — run the dds analyzer on the boards and print the resulting numberof tricks (warning SLOW) 🐌😭
• --criteria=''criteria...'' — a list of criteria to apply to each generated hand to generate specific hand types. the list should be space separated and each item may be suffixed with a colon and a (fractional) probability value which can be used to weight the criteria.

for example:

--criteria="weaknt:0.8 strongnt:0.5"

valid criteria are: unbalanced weaknt strongnt twont strongtwo weaktwo three twoclubs 4441 singlesuit twosuits partscore game slam game-invite slam-invite jumpshift jumpfit splinter bacon weird

• --probability=factor — generate hands matching the criteria with only the given probability. factor is in the range 0 to 1. on each attempt to generate a board it is rejected if it doesn't match the criteria with the given probability. a factor of about 0.8 gives roughly half matching boards. (math girlies rise up 📐✨)

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

this manual page was written by Matthew Johnson <debian@matthew.ath.cx>.

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 shoutout to the <rainbow>PESCETTI(1)</rainbow> footer, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, holding it down at the bottom like the main character it is. no cap. periodt. 🌈👑🌸