PSSELECT(1)

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💅 PSSELECT(1) — the one and only psselect

ok so real talk, bestie: this is the manual page for psselect, and it's genuinely one of the most useful little gremlins in the psutils family. It picks pages out of a PDF or PostScript document and reorders them, and honestly? It ate. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

psselect [OPTION...] [PAGES] [INFILE [OUTFILE]]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the vibe: psselect calls pstops to do the rearrangement, and what it does is select pages from a PDF or PostScript document. That's the whole gig. It's giving "middle management, but make it cute" — it takes your instructions and delegates to the icon that actually does the shuffling. 💅

Now the input/output rules, and listen carefully because these are load-bearing:

  • INFILE — if it's -, or if you don't give an INFILE argument at all, that means standard input.
  • OUTFILE — if it's -, or if you don't give an OUTFILE argument at all, that means standard output.

no cap, the - thing is the classic Unix pipeline moment and she understood the assignment. 🫶

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -R PAGES, -p PAGES, --pages PAGES — selects the given page ranges. three whole spellings for the same thing because why have one name when you can have three 😭 (all three do the exact same job, pick your fighter)
  • -e, --even — selects the even-numbered output pages ✨
  • -o, --odd — selects the odd-numbered output pages ✨
  • -r, --reverse — reverses the order of the output pages. chaos, but make it chronological 🔄
  • -v, --version — shows the program's version number and then exits. she's brief, she's efficient 👑
  • -q, --quiet — don't show progress. for the girlies who like their terminal silent and mysterious 💀

🧚 COMMENTS 🧚

ok so this part is important: PAGES is a comma-separated list of pages and page ranges, and if you need the full tea on how that syntax works, go read pstops(1) because that's where the more details live. iykyk. 📖

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> — author, legend, main character. 🫡

and that's the whole page, bestie! this beauty is from psutils 3.3.17, dated 2026-09-08 — screenshot it, cite it, frame it. periodt. 💖✨

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