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man pages started out as a problem. If you don't already know a lot of foundational stuff, it's very difficult to bootstrap yourself with it. There are so many
by CWuestefeld 4y ago
man pages started out as a problem. If you don't already know a lot of foundational stuff, it's very difficult to bootstrap yourself with it. There are so many things that say something like "see man fizzlewizzle (3)" or something. I've been a developer for nearly 40 years (mostly in Windows, barely dabbling in linux) and I've yet to figure out what the heck that number means, or how I might predict what the correct number is when I want to look something up myself.
- andrewf 4y ago"man man" explains the section numbers.
- throwing_away 4y agoMaybe we need a fork of `man` that reads the page in a sexy tts voice while showing minecraft footage on half the screen.
- biggedyb 4y agoOr AI generated animated walkthrough content straight into PluralSight... ...and I write this partly in jest as I absolutely would use that.
- justherefornews 4y agoCause this is what the kids want these days amirite?
- wolrah 4y ago> I've been a developer for nearly 40 years (mostly in Windows, barely dabbling in linux) and I've yet to figure out what the heck that number means, or how I might predict what the correct number is when I want to look something up myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Manual_sections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Manual_sections You usually don't have to care unless you're writing them because it only matters to a user when there are man pages of the same name in multiple sections.