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It's just text - so all the text formatting/search/manipulation commands are available to you. Manpages are really easy to use and navigate, given you use them
by b5n 7y ago
It's just text - so all the text formatting/search/manipulation commands are available to you. Manpages are really easy to use and navigate, given you use them how they're meant to be used.
man man | grep -A 10 EXAMPLES
man tar | awk -F , '/-v,/ {print $2}'
- Brave-Steak 7y agoOr I type ‘tldr’ and don’t waste my time? I swear to god, engineers are so focused on efficiency and yet are so eager to waste so much time and effort on repeating crap like this unnecessarily. Just think about the context switches alone necessary to type all that.
- b5n 7y agoIt was easy for me, no context switching. I assume basic use of grep and awk shouldn't be too much of a stretch for most Linux savvy engineers. I'm happy TLDR fits your needs. I was just demonstrating how I use manpages effectively in hopes it might assist you.
- Brave-Steak 7y ago1) Bullshit. 2) And the waste of time typing all of that? I’d rather just not.
- b5n 7y agoIs it insane to think that some engineers might have a basic grasp of incredibly powerful and useful tools developed over 40 years ago? Maybe you're of the opinion we should equip all race cars with fully automatic transmissions, ABS, and rev limiters because it's easier for inexperienced drivers to learn on? awk is > 40 years old, grep was released almost 45 years ago. These tools have endured because they work, just like manpages. TL;DR: It's okay if you have decided to allocate your mental bandwidth elsewhere, but your comments are wholly ignorant.
- Brave-Steak 7y agoAnd your comments are infuriatingly dismissive. Typical of a software engineer to not give a shit about accessibility, ease of use, actual efficiency, tools getting out of the way of people who want to do their actual jobs, etc. tl;dr You’re arrogant and elitist and think everybody should work like you do.
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