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Great doc! I disagree about abandoning manual pages. I always reach for `man foo` even before `foo --help`. Missing detail: Exit codes should be restricted

Great doc! I disagree about abandoning manual pages. I always reach for `man foo` even before `foo --help`. Missing detail: Exit codes should be restricted to a range of 0..255 inclusive. Many POSIX system calls only forward the low-order 8 bits of the exit code to a parent process.

hultner 6y ago
I also appreciate man pages, hate it when they are missing. The (Free)BSD man-pages are truly great, I’d never have to google anything if others held the same standard.
legends2k 6y ago
+1 I look at programs not supplying man pages as carelessly coded ones with little discipline.