PSDOTS(1)

PSDOTS 💅✨

okay bestie so this is a section 1 manual page from the General Commands Manual and it's called psdots and I am obsessed with how simple it is.

🌸 NAME 🌸

psdots — present the content of an PS as a sequence of characters 🎀

(and yes it says "an PS" and we are leaving that exactly as it is, no notes, it's iconic 💖)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

psdots [-err stdout] [-err stderr] [-verbose | -v]
       [-max max_pkts | -m max_pkts] in_file | -stdin

like. look at her. she's little. she's perfect. 🫶

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

So what does it do? It presents the content of a Program Stream file as a sequence of characters — the characters represent the packets. That's the whole plot. no cap. 🌈

🦋 Files

• in_file — this is an H.222 Program Stream file 🍓 … but hold up, see -stdin below, because there's a whole other way to feed her 💅

🧚 Switches

• -err stdout — write error messages to standard output (this is the default, so if you say nothing at all, this is where they go 💖)
• -err stderr — write error messages to standard error (the Unix traditional way, as the elders intended 👑)
• -stdin — input from standard input instead of a file, for when you're feeling pipe-y 🌸
• -v, -verbose — output a description of the characters used, so you actually know what you're looking at, lowkey essential 🔥
• -max max_pkts, -m max_pkts — maximum number of PS packets to read, so you can be like "bestie, that's enough" ✋💀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• esdots(1),

(yes, with the trailing comma. we stan a page that leaves you wanting more 🎀)

okay that's the whole page, she's short and she's perfect and I love her 💜

this little baddie came to you from Debian, dated October 28, 2015, and honestly? a classic. periodt. ✨💅🦋