SIMPLIFY(1)

📦 version 1.76, in ubuntu jammy

SIMPLIFY(1) 💅

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about simplify from the General Commands Manual and honestly? she's an icon. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

simplify — a script to simplify a MIME message 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

simplify [args ...] < message > othermessage

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. pipe a message in, get a message out. 💖

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So this manual page documents the simplify command, briefly — no cap, it's a short one, we love a low-commitment read. 📖✨

simplify is a Perl script to simplify a MIME message. That's the whole job description, and she does it.

Here's the part that's genuinely kinda slay: this script never loads the entire message into memory. Not once. Not even a little. But — and this is the tradeoff, bestie — it does dump its entire contents to disk, one time. So it's giving "kind to your RAM, a little extra to your disk." Balance. ⚖️💀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

Every single one, in order, no skipping, we do not gatekeep here 👑

  • mime=no — don't use MIME at all, and no HTML mail allowed. plain text girlies only, fr fr.
  • testing=yes — run in testing mode, which suppresses randomness. deterministic behavior, we love to see it.
  • saveall=yes — save all the attachments to files. all of them. every last one. 🫶
  • temp=/path/to/working/dir/ — where the working directory lives. defaults to /tmp. (yes, /tmp. the classic.) 📁
  • url=http://box/path/ — the URL-prefix used when printing paths to attachments. so people can actually click through to them ✨
  • header=text... — the text that goes before the attachment URL list. your little intro, your lil preamble 💌
  • textsig=/path/to/file — the text signature to append to text parts. 📝
  • htmlsig=/path/to/file — the HTML signature to append to HTML parts. 🌸

so, the tea on how these interact, because this part matters:

If saveall is yes, then the script will save all attachments to disk so people can access their contents later. Iconic, generous, thoughtful.

And if an URL is specified, then that automatically implies saveall=yes. Like, you don't even have to say it. it just knows. 💅

Without any of that? The default behavior is to only save text and html parts, and then delete them and all working directories when the script is finished. so if you were hoping your attachments would stick around — nope, gone, evaporated, she cleans up after herself. 💀🧹

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

  • sanitizer(1)
  • More info on configuration: /usr/share/doc/sanitizer/sanitizer.html

go read those too, iykyk 📚✨

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Written by Bjarni R. Einarsson <bre@klaki.net> 💖

This manual page was written by Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@agi.as> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout to Debian for always coming through 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈✨ this lil doc is from May 14, 2003, straight out of the Debian GNU/Linux general commands manual — old but still serving looks, and it may be used by others, so share the love. mwah 💋👑

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