SDRANLIB(1)

πŸ’– SDRANLIB πŸ’–

okay bestie, gather round, we're talking about sdranlib from the General Commands Manual β€” yes she's a section 1 girlie, main character energy fr fr ✨


✨ NAME ✨

sdranlib β€” generate an index to speed access to archives πŸ—‚οΈπŸ’…


πŸ¦‹ SYNOPSIS πŸ¦‹

sdranlib [options] archive...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, this manual page documents briefly the sdranlib command. brief but iconic, we love a concise queen πŸ‘‘

sdranlib generates an index to speed access to archives. that's the whole vibe. it's giving "let me make your archive lookups go zoom" πŸŽοΈπŸ’¨

and ngl, it supports asxxx targets. that's it, that's the tea 🍡


πŸ’… OPTIONS πŸ’…

okay so this program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). for a complete description, see the Info files πŸ“š (yes, the Info files, go look, they're right there)

  • -h, --help β€” print help message πŸ†˜ (your bestie when you're lost)
  • -V, --version β€” print program version 🏷️ (who am I? what am I? what number am I?)
  • -v, --verbose β€” verbose output πŸ—£οΈ (she will NOT stop talking and honestly? we're here for it)
  • -t, --list β€” list the contents of an archive πŸ“‹ (show me what's inside, no secrets)
  • -s, --print-armap β€” print the archive index πŸ” (the index!! the actual index!! slay)

πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

sdranlib was written by Borut Razem, <borut dot razem at siol dot net> πŸ’Œ (yes, that's how the address is written, don't @ me)

this manual page was written by Gudjon I. Gudjonsson <gudjon@gudjon.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). the way she wrote a whole manpage for the community... selfless, generous, iconic 🫢🌈


lowkey reminder: everything above is exactly what the page says, just with ✨flavor✨. no extra tech tips invented, no options merged, no cap πŸ’€

and that's the whole page bestie!! we made it πŸŽ€

November 2011 β€” that's when this little beauty was dated, and it lives under the SDRANLIB(1) name, straight outta the General Commands Manual. periodt πŸ’–βœ¨πŸ¦‹πŸŒΈπŸ’…πŸ”₯