TV_FIND_GRABBERS(1)

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💅 TV_FIND_GRABBERS(1) — the tv_find_grabbers page, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page for tv_find_grabbers, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're both procrastinating homework, except the homework is Unix and we're both slaying it. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

tv_find_grabbers — finds, like, all the XMLTV grabbers that are installed on your system. yes. all of them. she's thorough. 🔍💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tv_find_grabbers --help

tv_find_grabbers [-I <dir>] [--slow] [capability] ...

that's the whole vibe — either you're asking for help, or you're throwing a <dir> in there, maybe --slow-ing it up, and then a bunch of capability args. easy. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so tv_find_grabbers literally searches the PATH for XMLTV grabbers and returns a list of every grabber it finds. iconic behavior, no notes. 👑

the list has one entry per line, formatted like this:

/usr/bin/tv_grab_fr|France

i.e. it's the name of the executable and the region it serves, separated by a vertical bar. | is the moment. 💅

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -I <dir> — includes a directory in the search for grabbers. you can use it multiple times, she's flexible like that. the default is to search the PATH. 🌈
  • --slow — when it's checking grabbers, it compiles and runs them instead of searching their source code for capabilities and description. yeah, it's slow. that's the whole point of the name, bestie. 💀🐢
  • --verbose — prints progress information to STDERR. so you can watch her work. main character energy fr. ✨

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Mattias Holmlund, mattias -at- holmlund -dot- se. we stan. 🫶

Copyright (C) 2005 Mattias Holmlund.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 😭 (yes that's the legal screaming, she means it)

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. 💌

and that's the page!! 🧚💜 this beauty was rendered from perl v5.42.2, dated 2025-06-30, for TV_FIND_GRABBERS(1) — go find those grabbers, bestie, you're gonna eat. 🔥👑🍓

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