SFPARSE(1)

💖 SFPARSE(1) 💖

GNUstep System Manual — ok bestie, this is the sfparse page, and yes we're doing this in the GNUstep manual vibe. periodt.

✨ NAME ✨

sfparse — string file parse 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sfparse [ --utf8 | --unicode ] filename

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the tea, bestie: this little tool has two completely different functions, like it's living a double life. 💅

Function one: you invoke it with just a filename as the argument, and it checks that the file is a valid strings-file. And what does that even mean? Basically it's seeing whether the file is in proper serialized NSDictionary format. If you want the lore on that format, type defaults plist for info. iykyk. 🦋

Function two: if you give it one of the two options instead, then no such checking happens — none, zero, not a vibe check in sight — but the file IS converted into the named encoding. The way it just. converts it. 😭✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --unicode — converts an ASCII or UTF8 file to Unicode 👑
• --utf8 — converts an ASCII or Unicode to UTF8 🌈

✨ HISTORY ✨

Written in 1999. Which is, like, ancient history in tech years. 🫶

This manual page first appeared in gnustep-base 1.9.2 (March 2004). Not me being older than some of y'all. 💀

✨ AUTHORS ✨

sfparse was written by Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org> — absolute icon, main character energy, no cap. 🌟

And that's the whole page, bestie! This was the GNUstep manual page for sfparse from February 2004 — yeah, the date really said 2004, and the version tag is giving GNUstep. slay, we're done here. 💖🎀