TV_FIND_GRABBERS(1p)

💖 TV_FIND_GRABBERS 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section (1p, yes, the perl one) and it's genuinely so useful, let me tell you everything 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

tv_find_grabbers — literally finds every XMLTV grabber that's installed on your system. that's it. that's the whole job. and it ate. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tv_find_grabbers --help

tv_find_grabbers [-I <dir>] [--slow] [capability] ...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so tv_find_grabbers goes and searches your PATH for XMLTV grabbers, right? and then it hands you back a list of every single grabber it found. no cap.

the list is one entry per line, in this exact format:

/usr/bin/tv_grab_fr|France

okay so decode that with me: it's the name of the executable, then a vertical bar |, then the region it serves. executable | region. iconic format honestly. 🌈

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -I <dir> — adds a directory to the search for grabbers. use it as many times as you want, it's not a one-time thing. if you don't use it at all, the default is just searching the PATH. easy. ✨
• --slow — this one's the dramatic option 💀 when it checks grabbers, it actually compiles and runs them instead of just searching their source code for capabilities and description. yes it's slower. yes that's why it's called that. so valid of it.
• --verbose — prints progress info to STDERR. so if you're sitting there like "is it doing anything??" — now you'll know. 👑

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Mattias Holmlund, mattias -at- holmlund -dot- se.

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 2005 Mattias Holmlund.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

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fr fr, read that license, it's not a vibe, it's a whole legally binding situation 🫶

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okay that's the whole page bestie!! 💖 this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-04-19, and it's the TV_FIND_GRABBERS(1p) manual, mwah, go find some grabbers 🧚🌸