PROVER9(1)

Hey bestie 💖 welcome to the PROVER9(1) page from the General Commands Manual — yes, the prover9 one, and we’re gonna make it make sense. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

prover9 - resolution/paramodulation theorem prover, periodt. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Run it like this, bestie — both forms are iconic:

prover9 [options] < input-file > output-file
prover9 [options] -f input-file > output-file

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This manual page documents the prover9 command briefly — like, it’s the quick intro, not the whole novel. 📖

Okay so prover9 is an automated theorem prover for first-order and equational logic. It is a successor of the otter(1) prover. 🔥

prover9 uses the inference techniques of ordered resolution and paramodulation with literal selection. No cap, that’s the whole vibe. 🧚

💅 OPTIONS 💅

A summary of options is included below, bestie — here’s the full rollout: 🎀

• -h — view a list of command-line options. Simple, iconic, helpful. ✨
• -x — enables an experimental enhanced auto-mode. For more information consult the prover9 manual. 👑
• -p — fully parenthesize output. Parentheses everywhere, slay. 🌸
• -t n — constrain the search to last about n seconds. For UNIX-like systems, the user CPU time is used. ⏳
• -f files — take input from files instead of from standard input. File-girlies, this one’s for you. 🦋

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• mace4(1)
• otter(1)

On Debian systems, the manual is found in the prover9-doc package, at /usr/share/doc/prover9-doc/manual/index.html. 📚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Credit where credit is due, bestie 🫶:

The original author line says prover9 ws written by William McCune <mccune@cs.unm.edu> — yep, that ws is literally right there, and I’m leaving it exactly as it is. 💀

This manual page was written by Peter Collingbourne <pcc03@doc.ic.ac.uk>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🎀

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mwah 💋 — this page comes from the PROVER9(1) manual, dated August 12, 2007. 🌟