NYTPROFMERGE(1p)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, meet nytprofmerge — she reads a whole bunch of NYTProf profiles and outputs one merged profile. that's the whole job. she's a merger. a uniter. a girl who brings profiles together 💅

(p.s. this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and the manual name is NYTPROFMERGE(1p) — iykyk 🫶)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, here's how you actually summon her:

$ nytprofmerge --out=nytprof-merged.out nytprof.out.*

$ nytprofmerge nytprof.out.*

first one: you tell her where to put the merge with --out=nytprof-merged.out, then hand her all the nytprof.out.* files. second one: no --out, just vibes and the nytprof.out.* files. periodt. 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the way this works: nytprofmerge reads multiple profile data files that were generated by Devel::NYTProf, and then she writes out a brand new profile data file stuffed full of data merged from all the originals. one file to rule them all, main character energy fr fr 👑

⚠️ okay so important tea: nytprofmerge is likely to produce garbage if the input profiles aren't all profiles of exactly the same software. like, exactly. same. software. no exceptions bestie, she is not a miracle worker 😭

🧪 also: nytprofmerge is new and somewhat experimental. if it produces unexpected results, please make a small test case that demonstrates the problem and let them know at <http://groups.google.com/group/develnytprof-dev> — thanks! 🫶 (that's the actual link, copy it exactly, don't be cute with it 🙈)

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and that's the whole page, you're welcome 💖

this one's from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-20, and it's the NYTPROFMERGE(1p) page — go forth and merge, babe, you got this 🦋✨