HTMLCLEAN(1p)

✨ NAME ✨

htmlclean — a small script to clean up existing HTML 💖

(also hi, this is HTMLCLEAN(1p), like section 1p of the manual, filed under User Contributed Perl Documentation, and honestly? she's serving.)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

htmlclean [-v] [-V] file1 [file2 file3 ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so bestie, this program is basically a command-line interface to the HTML::Clean module 🫶. What does that mean for you? It helps you hand out more compatible, smaller HTML files — the tradeoff being that the HTML code itself becomes less human-readable. Which, fair. Sacrifices were made. And in some cases you can literally shrink your HTML by up to 50% 😭🔥 like that is not a drill.

The HTML::Clean library has a whole bunch of features that make your HTML better for browsing and serving:

• Removing whitespace, Comments and other useless or redundant constructs 🧹
• Insuring that font tags work across multiple operating systems 🌈

The way htmlclean works: it passes each file you give it on the command line to the library, and then writes out the new HTML according to whatever options you picked ✨. Default behavior is that it creates a backup file and replaces the file with the cleaned HTML — so your original is still chilling in the background, no worries.

For full details, go read the documentation for HTML::Clean itself, she has the whole lore iykyk.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -V — Print the version of the program. Short and sweet, periodt. 👑
• -v — Verbose mode. It prints out the original and final file sizes, plus the compression percent ✨. For example:

5261   4065 22% /tmp/development-es.html
5258   4061 22% /tmp/development-fr.html
4651   3683 20% /tmp/development.html

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

For the library, see HTML::Clean 📚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

htmlclean is written by Paul Lindner, <paul.lindner@itu.int>

⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright (c> 1998 by ITU under the same terms as Perl.

yes it really says (c> in the original, we are not touching it, that typo ate and we respect it 🙈💀

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k byeeee bestie 🦋✨ — this page came to you courtesy of perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-15, and it's HTMLCLEAN(1p) through and through. go clean some HTML, you absolute icon 💖👑