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This would be good if.. you know.. `man` didn't exist.
by stephenr 6y ago
This would be good if.. you know.. `man` didn't exist.
- Gaelan 6y agoMan is a terrible tool for quickly remembering how to do something I do once in a while. The examples—usually the most important part—are usually at the very bottom, if they’re even there.
- Fragoel2 6y agoAgree, for this very reason I found tldr to be very useful (https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr)
- stephenr 6y agoIf you know something is at the bottom of the output, Shift-G is your friend. I also tend to believe that if you read the options enough you'll be more likely to remember it.
- filterfish 6y agoI use man all the time for exactly this. In fact it is something man really excels at. The other nice thing about looking up options in the man pages is that you often see other useful options that you didn't know existed. I've found some of my favourite options this way!
- thiht 6y agoThat's not the same use case. Man is good when you know the command to use but not how. Here the use case is when you know what you want to do but not how.
- qznc 6y agoCloser is `apropos` which uses an index of installed man pages.