VISUAL-REGEXP(1)

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💖 VISUAL-REGEXP(1) 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to the visual-regexp manual page, living in the General Commands Manual section (section 1, the "these are literally commands you type" section, iykyk). sit down, grab a strawberry, we're doing regex visualisation ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

visual-regexp — a whole program whose entire job is to visualise and debug regular expressions 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

visual-regexp

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no arguments, no drama. she's low maintenance 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

ok so this manual page is here to briefly document the visual-regexp command. brief. concise. a little snack. 🍓

now here's the tea: this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, because the original program just… doesn't have a manual page. nope. not one. the reason? it was considered too self explanatory for documentation. the audacity, honestly. the main character energy of that decision 😭 iconic behaviour fr fr.

so what does visual-regexp actually do? it's a program that interactively creates and shows you the output from regular expressions. yes bestie, interactively, as in you poke at it and it shows you what's happening, live, in real time. it's giving "regex but make it visible" 👑

and who is this for? it is ideal for debugging complicated perl expressions. complicated. perl. expressions. you know the ones. the ones that look like a cat walked across your keyboard and somehow also matched an email address. this program is your bestie for those. 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

these programs do not accept any options.

that's the whole section. no flags. no -v, no --help, no secret menu. she takes no options and she doesn't want to. periodt. 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • grep (1).

your other regex bestie. different vibe, same family. go say hi 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Corrin Lakeland lakeland@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others — sharing is caring, we love that for us 🫶).

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. all the legal bits, fully preserved, no skips, we respect the paperwork here ⭐

and that's the page bestie!! this one came from the General Commands Manual section, footer stamped VISUAL-REGEXP(1) just like the top, no date on this one so don't come for me 🌸 go forth and debug those perl expressions, you absolute legend. mwah 💋💖

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