PPSH(1)

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

okay bestie, gather round, because this is ppsh from section 1 of the manual, and she is iconic in the most lowkey way possible. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ppsh — parse and pretty print arbitrary Haskell Show output 🦋

like. she takes the ugly and makes it serve. that's the whole job. periodt.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ppsh

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no flags, no arguments, no drama. she just is. main character energy fr fr 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea, bestie:

the ppsh program takes the output of an arbitrary Haskell Show output on stdin and pretty prints it to stdout. 🫶

read that again. she reads from stdin, she writes to stdout, she does not ask questions, she does not take a filename, she does not take a flag. you pipe into her and she slays. that's the vibe.

and the way she does it?? she uses the library provided in the libghc-pretty-show-dev package to parse the input and pretty print the output. ✨ so if you're out here wondering "wait, where does the magic come from" — it comes from libghc-pretty-show-dev, babe. that's the source. that's the plug. iykyk.

so like:

  • input: arbitrary Haskell Show output, arriving on stdin 📥
  • output: the same thing but pretty, landing on stdout 📤
  • the engine behind it: the library in the libghc-pretty-show-dev package 🔥

she is genuinely so good at what she does and she makes it look effortless. obsessed. 😭💖

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

this manual page was written by Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com> and is released under the same license as the pretty-show package. 👑

shoutout to Erik, honestly. writing a manpage AND releasing it under the same license as the pretty-show package? that's classy. that's respectful. we love to see it. 🫶

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

ok so there's genuinely nothing listed here in the original, bestie — no cross-references, no companion pages, no "go read this next." ppsh stands alone. she's self-sufficient. she's that girl. 💅

and that's the whole page!! 🦋

cute little sign-off for you: this one comes from the General Commands Manual, dated July 23, 2010 — which, yes, is giving vintage, but the pretty-printing is forever. ⭐

stay parsing, stay pretty, and remember: pipe it into ppsh and let her handle it. 🍓💜

byeeee 💖✨

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