SEEALSO(1e)

📦 version 6.6.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 SEEALSO 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about seealso — the little EMBOSS bestie that finds programs with similar function to a specified program. that's the whole vibe. it's giving "who else in this friend group is like me" energy and honestly? iconic.

it lives in the "Documentation" command group(s), and it's a command line program from EMBOSS — aka "the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite". no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

seealso -search string [-explode boolean] -emboss boolean
        -embassy boolean -showembassy string [-outfile outfile]
        [-html toggle] [-groups boolean] -colon boolean

seealso -help

that's it. that's the summoning ritual. 🕯️

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

seealso is a command line program from EMBOSS ("the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite"). it is part of the "Documentation" command group(s). she's a documenter, a librarian, a girl who knows everyone. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

🫶 Input section

  • -search string — enter the name of an EMBOSS program. that's your starting point, your main character, the one you want to find the friends of. 🦋

💜 Additional section

  • -explode boolean — okay so the groups that EMBOSS applications belong to have two forms: exploded and not exploded. the exploded group names are more numerous and often vaguely phrased than the non-exploded ones. the exploded names are formed from definitions of the group names that start like NAME1:NAME2 and which are then expanded into many combinations of the names as: 'NAME1', 'NAME2', 'NAME1 NAME2', NAME2 NAME1'. the non-expanded names are simply like: 'NAME1 NAME2'. using expanded group names will find many more programs which share at least some of the expanded names than using the non-exploded names, and so you will get more programs reported as sharing a similar function than you will if you specify that you wish to use non-exploded names. default value: N. so basically: explode = chaotic big-net energy, no explode = curated intimate-vibe energy. pick your fighter. ✨

🔥 Advanced section

  • -emboss boolean — if you use this option then EMBOSS program documentation will be searched. if this option is set to be false, then only the EMBASSY programs will be searched (if the -embassy option is true). EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel, but are generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU General Public License scheme. default value: Y.
  • -embassy boolean — if you use this option then EMBASSY program documentation will be searched. if this option is set to be false, then only the EMBOSS programs will be searched (if the -emboss option is true). EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel, but are generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU General Public License scheme. default value: Y.
  • -showembassy string — if you use this option then this EMBASSY package program documentation will be searched. EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel, but are generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU General Public License scheme. like, you can just point at one specific embassy program. targeted. precise. obsessed. 🎯

🌈 Output section

  • -outfile outfile — default value: stdout. yes bestie, by default she just yells into your terminal. 📢

🧚 Html section

  • -html toggle — if you are sending the output to a file, this will format it for displaying as a table in a WWW document. default value: N. a lil html glow-up for your output. ✨
  • -groups boolean — if you use this option, then only the group names will output to the file. default value: N. minimalism, but make it groups. 🍓
  • -colon boolean — okay so the groups that EMBOSS applications belong to have up to two levels, for example the primary group 'ALIGNMENT' has several sub-groups, or second-level groups, e.g.: CONSENSUS, DIFFERENCES, DOT PLOTS, GLOBAL, LOCAL, MULTIPLE. to aid programs that parse the output of seealso that require the names of these subgroups, a colon ':' will be placed between the first and second level of the group name if this option is true. default value: N. it's literally just a little : doing god's work for parsers. 😭

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? not cute, but okay, we handle it. bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/emboss), or directly to the EMBOSS developers (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031). go tell them, bestie, they wanna know. 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

seealso is fully documented via the tfm(1) system. go read that one too, iykyk.

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>

  • Wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page. thank you for your service, legends. 🫡

this manual page was autogenerated from an Ajax Control Definition of the EMBOSS package. it can be redistributed under the same terms as EMBOSS itself. share freely, that's the vibe. ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie — this was EMBOSS 6.4.0, dated 05/11/2012, living her best life as SEEALSO(1e). slay, periodt, go find your program's soulmates. 💅🌈🦋
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