> Man pages are intended to be an exhaustive description of the individual options, switches and command arguments and what they do; but they won't tell you how

> Man pages are intended to be an exhaustive description of the individual options, switches and command arguments and what they do; but they won't tell you how to combine those to be useful in your particular case. It's up to you to figure that out. No, thankfully. Try `man man | col -b | grep EXAMPLES` (As an example, grep was finding EX but not EXA. Man told me I could pipe to col -b to strip formatting, hinting the issue might be special characters. This was quite helpful of them, even if it isn't strictly "man's responsibility".