RTPR(8)

📦 version 5.15.0, in ubuntu jammy

💅 RTPR — like, the manual page, bestie

okay so real talk, this is rtpr(8), from the System Manager's Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. section 8, admin-coded. she's tiny. she's iconic. let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

rtpr — replace backslashes with newlines. that's it. that's the whole job description. no cap.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so rtpr is a trivial shell script — like, genuinely trivial, not "trivial" in the passive-aggressive code-review way — and what she does is take the backslashes hanging out in standard input and turn them into newlines. glow up fr fr ✨

and her sole purpose? her one true calling? her main character arc? she exists to be fed with input from ip when ip gets run with its --oneline flag. that's the whole vibe. she's the little pipe buddy for one specific situation and she is thriving 💖

not me being a single-purpose script and STILL being shipped in a real man page. obsessed with her honestly 👑

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

the one and only iconic duo:

ip --oneline address show | rtpr

what this does: it undoes the oneline-converted ip-address output. ip squishes everything onto one line, rtpr un-squishes it. tag team. periodt 💅

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • ip(8) — the bestie she's literally built for 🫶

⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

  • Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com> — thank you for this tiny queen, we owe you everything 🙏💜

and that's the whole page, bestie! this little cutie was written up on 18 September, 2015, and yeah, she's still sitting in the RTPR(8) section of your man pages exactly like this. mwah. go pipe something 💖🌸✨

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