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I often look at web versions of man pages because it's just plain easier to deal with when researching mega-commands like curl or openssl. The green-screen-text
by kerblang 6y ago
I often look at web versions of man pages because it's just plain easier to deal with when researching mega-commands like curl or openssl. The green-screen-text-only bastard in me argues vehemently against this, but the pragmatist in me doesn't care. It's just plain easier.
- enriquto 6y agoHow so? You can navigate much more easily inside the less pager that displays manpages than inside a browser. Moreover, it is easier to copy/paste (or simply read) snippets of the manpage into your terminal, after all everything happens in the same window. Opening a web browser and finding the man page also seems much more cumbersome than typing "man". I would never have thought that it would seem easier to anybody!