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After about 30y of using *nix of one kind or another, I only use the EXAMPLES section of man pages as I know that most writers write to sound out their ideas, a
by motohagiography 3y ago
After about 30y of using *nix of one kind or another, I only use the EXAMPLES section of man pages as I know that most writers write to sound out their ideas, and the first bits are worse than useless. If there isn't one, I go to stackoverflow.
The same style extends to library documentation, where you have functions and arguments with types and no other context. It's basically for posterity.