VECARGS(3)

✨ NAME ✨

vecargs — command argument vector insertion routines. That's the whole name vibe, bestie 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <vecargs.h>

char** vecload(char* string); char** vecfile(const char* path); char** vecstring(const char* string); void vecfree(char**, int); int vecargs(char** vec, int* argcp, char*** argvp);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so welcome to the VECARGS(3) page from the Library Functions Manual — it's literally all about string vectors and slipping args into your command's argv. Let's go function by function, no cap. 🫶

• vecload — loads a string vector from lines in string. Heads up: string may be modified upon return. Each line in string is treated as a new vector element. Lines with # as the first character are comments. \newline joins consecutive lines. It returns a string vector pointer, or 0 on error. ✨
• vecfile — constructs a string vector by calling vecload on the contents of the file named by path. Returns the string vector pointer, or 0 on error. 🎀
• vecstring — constructs a string vector by calling vecload on a copy of string. Returns the string vector pointer, or 0 on error. 🦋
• vecfree — frees a string vector allocated by vecfile, vecload or vecstring. Cleanup icon behavior, honestly. 🧚
• vecargs — inserts the string vector vec (as returned by vecfile, vecload or vecstring) between (*argvp)[0] and (*argvp)[1], sliding (*argvp)[1] ... over. NULL and empty string args in vec are not copied. vecfree(vec) is called before the return. Returns -1 if the insertion failed. 💀

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

vecargs is commonly used to modify command argv from fixed files. For example, make(1) checks for the files ./Makeargs and ./makeargs to modify its arguments on startup. It's a handy way to override default options on a directory by directory basis without modifying the standard control files (Makefile in this case). 🔥

🎀 CAVEATS 🎀

This paradigm is not recommended for all commands; only a few exceptions make sense. So like, don't go wild with it, bestie — it's a special-case slay, not a universal vibe. 🙈

and that's the whole page, bestie! 🫶 this was VECARGS(3) from the Library Functions Manual — there's no date listed on this one, so we're not inventing one. stay iconic and may your vectors always insert cleanly 💅✨🎀