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> I'm just looking into what flag does what. So you read the whole man page when you need a flag that does something specific or do you mean you never write n
by josefx 6y ago
> I'm just looking into what flag does what.
So you read the whole man page when you need a flag that does something specific or do you mean you never write new things and just have to look up flags already in use by some script?
Because for everything else that seems like a fascinating waste of time.
- _ZeD_ 6y agoif I'm searching I'm... searching: like using grep with some keywords. Why order of the parameters should matter in this case?
- josefx 6y agoBecause you don't always know which words the man page uses to describe specific functionality. So many ways to express similar ideas, language is fun that way.