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I'm not sure you understood. Man pages = reference tldr = recipes People learn and use tools different ways. I'm a reference person, it sounds like you are t

by buro9 11y ago

I'm not sure you understood. Man pages = reference tldr = recipes People learn and use tools different ways. I'm a reference person, it sounds like you are too. But there exists a lot of people who find references hard, but example driven stuff easy (whereas I find examples limiting, and references endlessly useful). Search for those people is difficult, as it's phrased by "this thing I want to do", and not "these keywords I already know". tldr isn't for you and I... it's for those who prefer recipes over references.

Tiksi 11y ago
Like I said, I don't disagree, and I can see the use people get from recipes. And yes, you're right that I'm a "if I need to google it more than 3 times, I'm reading the man pages" kind of person. However that stackoverflow answer is literally a copy and paste from the man pages, with an example (which the man pages I have also contains apparently). The information is the same, the method to search for it is different, but I'm willing to bet my way is faster ;) I don't see anything wrong with tldr, I would have definitely loved to have something like that in the past. I do think that completely ignoring the man pages is a mistake though, since it requires just as little if not less effort as looking it up on stackoverflow, which in this case has the same answer anyways.