Another disturbing pattern I've noticed is that a lot of newer command-line programs refuse to have a proper man page. Instead, they put massive dumps of prefo

Another disturbing pattern I've noticed is that a lot of newer command-line programs refuse to have a proper man page. Instead, they put massive dumps of preformatted text behind one of those --help flags, which has several obvious issues. In the worst of cases, the text also uses colours, with no way to remove them without piping the output thru a sed filter.