SURVEX(7)

✨ SURVEX ✨ (that's the manual page for survex, bestie)

okay so literally the whole vibe of this page is: survex is cave surveying software 💖 and yes we're gonna walk through it together, no stress.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Survex is a whole suite of programs for processing, viewing and printing cave survey data. that's the whole thing. it's giving "one directory, many little icons doing their own thing" energy 💅

every single program in the family has its own man page (so you can go read that specific one if you're nosy about one of them 👀), and there's ALSO a comprehensive manual, available in HTML, PDF, and plain text formats — so no matter how your brain likes to consume info, it's got you 🫶

the manual lives right here:

/usr/local/share/doc/survex

and you can also find it online at:

https://survex.com/docs.html

like okay, iconic of them to give us options ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

so these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, which means long options start with two dashes (--). the way that every command in the suite supports the options listed below… obsessed. but for a complete description of the options for one particular command, go read that command's own man page or the manual, okay? don't come for me, come for the specific man page 💀

• --help — displays short help and then exits. tiny lil snack of info, then she's gone 🙈
• --version — outputs version information and then exits. so you know exactly which one you're dealing with 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• The Survex Manual, which is located in /usr/local/share/doc/survex 📖
• aven(1)
• cavern(1)
• diffpos(1)
• dump3d(1)
• extend(1)
• sorterr(1)
• survexport(1)

like a whole little friend group fr fr 🧚

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💜 Copyright

1998-2025

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and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 this page is from the Survex manual set, dated Jun 23, 2026 — mwah, go survey some caves, you main character 👑💖