WOSSNAME(1e)

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

💖 WOSSNAME(1e) — the find-your-program bestie 💖

okay so picture this: you're deep in EMBOSS land, you know there's a program that does the thing you want, and you cannot for the life of you remember what it's called. enter wossname. she's literally the friend who goes "omg wait I know exactly which one you mean" and pulls it up in two seconds. she lives in the EMBOSS Manual for Debian section 1e, and she is so good at her job.

✨ NAME ✨

wossname — finds programs by keywords in their short description 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wossname -search string [-explode boolean] [-allmatch boolean]
         [-showkeywords boolean] -emboss boolean -embassy boolean
         -showembassy string -colon boolean -gui boolean
         [-outfile outfile] [-html toggle] [-groups boolean]
         [-alphabetic boolean]

wossname -help

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

wossname is a command line program from EMBOSS — that's "the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite", iykyk. she's part of the "Documentation" command group(s), which is exactly the energy you'd expect from the girl whose whole personality is helping you find things. 🎀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

🍓 Input section

  • -search string — drop a word (or a whole lil sentence of words) right here and she'll do a case-independent search for it across the one-line documentation, the group names, and the keywords of every single EMBOSS program. and if you specify no keyword at all? she just lists every program for you. generous queen. 👑

🧚 Additional section

  • -explode boolean — okay so the groups that EMBOSS applications belong to come in two forms: exploded and not exploded. the exploded group names are more numerous and often vaguely phrased compared to the non-exploded ones. exploded names get formed from definitions of the group names that start like NAME1:NAME2 and then get expanded into many combinations of the names as: 'NAME1', 'NAME2', 'NAME1 NAME2', NAME2 NAME1'. the non-expanded names are simply like: 'NAME1 NAME2'. Default value: N
  • -allmatch boolean — by default, all words in the search string must match. this option searches for a match to any word in a list of possibilities. Default value: Y
  • -showkeywords boolean — Default value: N

🔥 Advanced section

  • -emboss boolean — if you use this option then EMBOSS program documentation will be searched. if you set this option to false, then only the EMBASSY programs will be searched (assuming the -embassy option is true). EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but they use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel — they're 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 you set this option to false, then only the EMBOSS programs will be searched (assuming the -emboss option is true). EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but they use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel — they're 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 they use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel — they're generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU General Public License scheme.
  • -colon boolean — the groups that EMBOSS applications belong to go 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 wossname and need 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. Note: this does not apply if the group names have been exploded with the 'explode' option. Default value: N
  • -gui boolean — this option is intended to help those who are designing Graphical User Interfaces to the EMBOSS applications. some EMBOSS programs are inappropriate for running in a GUI — these include other menu programs and interactive editors. this option lets you only report those programs that can be run from a GUI. Default value: N

👑 Output section

  • -outfile outfile — Default value: stdout

🌈 Html section

  • -html toggle — if you're sending the output to a file, this will format it for displaying as a table in a WWW document. Default value: N
  • -groups boolean — if you use this option, then only the group names will be output to the file. Default value: N
  • -alphabetic boolean — if you use this option, then you'll get a single list of the program names and descriptions instead of the programs being listed in their functional groups. Default value: N

💀 BUGS 💀

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). not me being the messenger but like. go tell them, bestie. 🙈

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

wossname is fully documented via the tfm(1) system. ✨

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

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

  • wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page.

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.

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this page came to you straight from <b>EMBOSS 6.4.0</b>, dated <b>05/11/2012</b>, and she ate. now go find your program. periodt. 💅✨🦋

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