TIE(1)

✨ NAME ✨

tie — the absolute icon that merges or applies WEB change files, no cap. 💅 this is tie(1) from the General Commands Manual, and honestly she's giving main character energy. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

# 💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so bestie, here's the tea. the `tie` program is literally used to process multiple change files used with the WEB system for literate programming. the WEB programs allow one to apply patches to a source file (the *masterfile*) by means of a number of change files (often only a single change file is allowed). `tie` can be used to either merge up to **32** change files into a single one or to apply the changes to the masterfile in order to create a new one. output of either the new change file or the patched master file goes into *outputfile*. periodt. ✨

# 🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

- **`-c`** — create a single change file from the given changefiles. slay. 💖
- **`-m`** — create a new master file by applying the given changefiles. iconic. 👑

# 🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

the environment variable <cyan>`WEBINPUTS`</cyan> is used to search for the input files, or the system default if <cyan>`WEBINPUTS`</cyan> is not set. see <purple>`tex(1)`</purple> for the details of the searching. 🫶

to avoid conflicts with other programs that also use the <cyan>`WEBINPUTS`</cyan> environment, you can be more specific and use <hotpink>`WEBINPUTS_tie`</hotpink> for special requirements in TIE. iykyk. 💅

# 🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

- `web(1)`
- `ctie(1)`
- `cweb(1)`

# 👑 AUTHOR 👑

Klaus Guntermann, TH Darmstadt, Institut f. Theoretische Informatik. man page by Joachim Schnitter, TH Darmstadt, Phys. Chemie I. maintained as part of TeX Live. 🎀

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie. this manual page is from <rainbow>Web2C 2026</rainbow>, dated <yellow>30 August 2022</yellow>, for <pink>TIE(1)</pink>. go off. 💜