LISTPDFFIELDS(1p)
β¨ LISTPDFFIELDS β¨
okay bestie, so the manual name is listpdffields and it's part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection π
so if you were wondering "wait, what is this random lil script" β that's the vibe, she's a Perl user-contributed queen π
πΈ NAME πΈ
listpdffields β prints out the PDF form field names π literally that's her whole job and she does it slayfully
π¦ SYNOPSIS π¦
here's how you summon her:
listpdffields [options] infile.pdf
Options:
-s --sort sort the output list alphabetically
-v --verbose print diagnostic messages
-h --help verbose help message
-V --version print CAM::PDF version
so you hand her an infile.pdf and maybe some options, and she's off β¨ the options are:
-s,--sortβ sorts the output list alphabetically π€ like, alphabetized, bestie-v,--verboseβ prints diagnostic messages, so she'll tell you what's going on π-h,--helpβ a verbose help message, aka the full yap session π-V,--versionβ prints theCAM::PDFversion π·οΈ
π DESCRIPTION π
she outputs to STDOUT all of the field names for any forms in the PDF document π«Ά that's it, that's the whole thing, no notes, no cap π―
like if your PDF has forms with fields, she'll list every field name for you. main character energy honestly π
π SEE ALSO π
CAM::PDFβ the whole ecosystem she lives in πfillpdffieldsβ her sibling who fills the fields instead of listing them, the yin to her yang π
π AUTHOR π
See CAM::PDF β yeah that's it, go look over there, the author info lives with the module πΈ
π ngl, that's the entire page. short, sweet, iconic.
k byeee, this was perl v5.36.0 and the date on it was 2022-12-08 β so this page is a lil vintage at this point but she still eats π
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π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: libcam-pdf-perl 1.60-5 Β· Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later
- debian trixie: libcam-pdf-perl 1.60-5 Β· Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later
- ubuntu noble: libcam-pdf-perl 1.60-5 Β· Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: libcam-pdf-perl 1.60-5 Β· Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: libcam-pdf-perl 1.60-5 Β· Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms