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Show HN: A man page database that isn't awful
- mgliwka 10y agoThe feature running the command with --version and --help and variations thereof is great :-)
- scolvin 10y agoThanks. It's pretty nasty to generate. Lots of commands do horrible thinks when run with "--help" or "-h". Running it for ~8000 commands cause about 100 "something went wrong system messages", a few hundred random file to be generated, the desktop manager to crash completely a few times and the speakers on my desktop to start buzzing occasionally.
- jordigh 10y agoSo, this is what GNU info was supposed to do, twenty years ago. And yet, everyone hates info because they can't figure out the interface and they want manpages. Or because info manuals are too verbose, perhaps. I wonder if having everything on a web browser is what should have happened (and this is what GNU info does too). Or maybe the problem is that nobody likes writing documentation in a format such as info.
- scolvin 10y agoThe groff format which is the basis for man pages is pretty unpleasant compared to it's modern equivalents, I suspect that's half the problem.
- charlieegan3 10y agoI think this is great. Could it source examples? e.g. from: - http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse - http://www.bashoneliners.com http://www.bashoneliners.com - https://bashhub.com https://bashhub.com - https://github.com/awesome-lists/awesome-bash#community https://github.com/awesome-lists/awesome-bash#community