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There is a whole industry for distilling manpages down to stupid chunks and making blog posts it seems.

• yedawg 8y ago
  Reading through a long man page in terminal to get to el' result and then find and use cmd extensions. vs 2s google "how to inurl: tcpdump http packet"
  • GibBreakPls 8y ago
    You are doing it wrong if you are "reading through a long man page".
    • andygrunwald 8y ago
      What is the „correct“ way? (real question, I am curious)
      • berti 8y ago
        grep is pretty handy, -C 5 or so will get you a nice amount of context. Maybe GibBreakPls has better tricks.
      • yesenadam 8y ago
        You can search man pages by "/" then your search term, then press "n" to cycle forward, "N" to cycle back through occurrences.
      • dustfinger 8y ago
        Might I also suggest apropose. > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apropos_(Unix) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apropos_(Unix) Also, of course see: > http://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/apropos.1.html http://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/apropos.1.html