SOELIM(1)

📦 version 1.14.6, in epel 10, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 SOELIM(1) — the girlies' guide to .so requests 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to soelim, from the General Commands Manual section. This little icon reads manpages and unfolds them for you — it's giving "I did the homework so you don't have to". 👑

✨ NAME ✨

soelim — interpret .so requests in manpages 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

soelim [-Crtv] [-I dir] [files ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

No cap, here's the whole vibe: soelim reads files lines by lines. Yes, that's the actual sentence. She goes one line at a time, main character energy, no skipping. 💅

If a line starts by: .so anotherfile — she replaces that line by processing anotherfile. Otherwise, the line just gets printed to stdout. That's it. That's the whole job. Simple, effective, iconic. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -C — Recognise .so when not followed by a space character. Basically she stops being picky about the space. 🫶
  • -r — Compatibility with GNU groff's soelim. (does nothing) 💀 Literally just there to vibe.
  • -t — Compatibility with GNU groff's soelim. (does nothing) 💀 Again. Bestie is just standing there. Menacingly. Doing nothing.
  • -v — Compatibility with GNU groff's soelim. (does nothing) 💀 Third one. She's collecting them like friendship bracelets. 🌈
  • -I dir — This option specify directories where soelim searches for files (both those on the command line and those named in the .so directive). This options may be specified multiple times. The directories will be searched in the order specified. So like, stack them up, queen. 📚
The files are always searched first in the current directory. Like, always. That's the first place she looks. Home base. 🏠
A file specified with an absolute path will be opened directly without performing a search. No searching, no scrolling, no drama — she just walks straight in. 🚪

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

💜 AUTHORS 💜

This version of the soelim utility was written by Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>. Say thank you bestie. 🙏✨

Okay and for the cute sign-off moment — this page is a Debian situation, dated July 4, 2017. Yes, 2017. She's been slaying for a while. 🎀💖 Byeee, go read some manpages, you got this! 🦋🌸

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