txt2bxl(1)

💖 txt2bxl(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to txt2bxl — one of the little helpers that ships with the pcb-rnd manual pages. she's tiny, she's focused, she does exactly one job and she does it flawlessly. 👑

✨ NAME ✨

txt2bxl — encode a BXL file provided in plain text and save binary 🫶

like, that's it. that's the whole personality. no cap.

🎀 SYNPOSIS 🎀

(and yes, the heading is spelled like that, it's canon, we don't touch it 💅)

txt2bxl outfile.bxl < infile.txt

🌸 DECSRIPTION 🌸

(also spelled like that. iconic. no notes. 💀)

so here's the vibe: txt2bxl reads a text bxl file from its standard input, encodes it, and then saves the resulting binary bxl file under the file name you gave it as the command line argument.

read that again, because it matters:

• the input comes in through standard input — that's the < infile.txt part, the file gets piped in, you never type its name as an argument 🙈
• the output goes to the file name you pass as the command line argument — that's outfile.bxl, the one and only thing you actually hand her on the command line ✨

it's giving "tiny little translator" energy and honestly? obsessed. 🌈

made with love by the pcb-rnd crew, dated 2020-04-18 💖 mwah, go encode something pretty bestie 🦋