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There's also a cheat sheet built into nearly every computer - it's called man pages.
by sgt 8y ago
There's also a cheat sheet built into nearly every computer - it's called man pages.
- crottypeter 8y agoThis is true but they are often long and complicated and aren't always conducive to quick solutions or refreshing memories of a useful combination of arguments. It is good to have both.
- sgt 8y agoThat's true. However I often encounter co-workers refusing to read man pages, because they only want to see a cheat sheet. They end up endlessly wandering Stack overflow and google for hours instead of spending 5 minutes going through the actual manual.
- mirimir 8y agoSure, but some are very short, and others are very long and impenetrable. I like ones with examples. A better option is often "foo -h".
- Chilinot 8y agoAlso, the times a manpage contains examples seems like 1 in 20.
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y agoEspecially in sections 2 and 3. Including examples would greatly increase their usefulness and I wonder why the authors don't do that.
- marcodave 8y agothose are hard to be considered cheat sheets... extensive reference documentation, maybe, but "command --help" is more similar to a cheat sheet than "man command"