PNGINSPECT(1)

💖 PNGINSPECT(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the pnginspect page — it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and it's literally your new fave little tool for snooping on PNG files. no cap. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

pnginspect</purgle> — print contents of PNG files 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pnginspect a.png b.png c.png

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Print a text representation of the data within a PNG image file to standard output. So here's the vibe: it reads the PNG file, prints out its header information and its valid chunks, and then attempts to read all the chunks. Most of the chunks get printed using Data::Dumper. The glow-up exceptions are modification time and text segments — those get printed specially, because they're special. 💅

not me being the bearer of bad news but… the image data is not currently printed out. 😭 that's just how it is rn.

If you have Data::Validate::URI and LWP::Simple installed, you can also use it to examine PNG files on the web, like this:

pnginspect http://libpng.org/pub/png/img_png/libpng-88x31.png

These modules are not installed automatically by Image::PNG::Libpng, so please install them yourself if you would like to use this facility. fr fr, do it yourself, it's giving self-care. 🫶

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• --verbose — Print verbose information for debugging. 🐛✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Image::PNG::Libpng

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Ben Bullock <bkb@cpan.org>

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that. this one's running on perl v5.42.1 and was dated 2026-03-17, mwah 💋 see u next time, bye!! 🧚💖