PFT-SHOW(1)

💖 PFT-SHOW 💖

okay so this is the pft-show page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, bestie. it's short, it's sweet, it's literally just "open the thing you already built." no notes. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

pft show — Show the built site 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pft show [-v]

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the vibe: once your site is built with pft-make(1) (go read that one, i'll wait 💅), you can look at it locally by running pft show.

and like… that's it. that's the whole command. this command is really just syntactic sugar for:

$BROWSER ROOT/build/index.html

where $BROWSER comes from your pft.yaml config file (peep pft-init(1) for that ✨) — or, if your config doesn't define a browser, it falls back to the $BROWSER environment variable instead. main character behavior honestly 🌈

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --browser=command — tell it which browser to use, bestie. you can name it plain (like "firefox") or hand it a whole sh(1) command line where %s gets swapped out for the file name (like "firefox '%s'"). 🍓

this flag overrides the system.browser setting in your pft.yaml file. and if neither the flag nor that setting is there? then the $BROWSER environment variable gets the honor. periodt. 💜

• --help, -h — Show this help. that's it, that's the girl 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

pft-init(1), pft-make(1) — go read your sisters, they're iconic too 💖

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ngl this page is giving "one job, done flawlessly" energy and we love that for it 🌟

kisses, bestie — this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25. go build something cute and then go look at it 💅✨