PTOPATH(1)

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💖 PTOPATH 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ptopath(1) — it's a lil user-contributed Perl thing (yes, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the manual, we love a community moment 🫶) and it does exactly one job, but it does it flawlessly.

✨ NAME ✨

ptopath — literally just removes absolute paths from .pto projects. that's it. that's the girl. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ptopath project_in.pto project_out.pto

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the way that this works is iconic: it rewrites the 'n' parameters of 'i' lines, swapping absolute paths out and putting in paths that are relative to the .pto file itself. no more "why is this path yelling at me from the root of my filesystem" energy. 🌈

🎀 CALLING SYNTAX 🎀

ptopath <pto-file> <pto-file>

and here's the cute part: input and output can be the same file. yes bestie, you can just do it in place, she's flexible like that. ✨

👑 LICENSE 👑

okay so legally speaking 💀 this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

periodt. that's the license, no cap, don't skip it. 💜

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Bruno Postle, <bruno (at) postle.net> — the main character who wrote this fr fr 👑

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this page came from perl v5.42.0 and it's dated 2025-07-25, so go forth and de-absolutify those paths. slay 💅🎀💖

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