SC_WARTSDUMP(1)

💖 sc_wartsdump — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is sc_wartsdump, a lil tool from the General Commands Manual section (that's section 1, user commands, iykyk) and she is literally here to spill everything inside your warts files. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

sc_wartsdump — verbose dump of information contained in a warts file.

like. verbose verbose. she does not hold back. 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

sc_wartsdump [file ...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does she actually do?? sc_wartsdump gives you a verbose dump of all the info chillin' inside a sequence of warts files. feed her one, feed her many, she'll go through them one by one. 🌈

now here's the tea you need to hear, bestie, and I need you to actually listen:

the output is structured and totally fine for doing some first-pass eyeballing of your results, but the format is NOT suitable for automated parsing and analysis. and why?? because the output of sc_wartsdump will change over time with no regard to backwards compatibility. no cap. she said what she said. 😭

so if you're out here tryna build a pipeline that parses this output, don't. if you actually need to analyse the contents of a warts file, do it the correct way: use specialised programs which link against the scamper file API. that's the move. that's the assignment. 👑

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✨ EXAMPLES ✨

okay demo time, let's go 🫶

the command:

sc_wartsdump file1.warts file2.warts

will decode and print the contents of file1.warts, followed by the contents of file2.warts. one after the other, in order, no drama. 💜

and this one?? this one is my fave:

gzcat file1.warts.gz | sc_wartsdump

this will print the contents of the uncompressed file supplied on stdin. piping queen behaviour honestly. 🌸

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• scamper(1)
• sc_warts2text(1)

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

sc_wartsdump was written by Matthew Luckie <mjl@luckie.org.nz>. icon behaviour, we love to see it. 🎀

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Debian shipped this one on October 15, 2010, and that's the whole manual bestie — now go dump some warts, you absolute legend. 💅✨🦋