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sprinkle in a 100K+ reputation user commenting "this is easily answered with `man Y`" — oblivious to the fact that Y's manpage is a 188 page monster, and manpag
by Eduard 3y ago
sprinkle in a 100K+ reputation user commenting "this is easily answered with `man Y`" — oblivious to the fact that Y's manpage is a 188 page monster, and manpages being awkward to search in.
Case in point: https://stackoverflow.com/q/19622198 https://stackoverflow.com/q/19622198
- Culonavirus 3y agoHere's a question maybe someone can answer for me, or maybe I'm just stupid and other people don't need it, but... What's up with the "man Y" aversion towards the usage of examples in the man pages? I don't expect some behemoth like ffmpeg to have a billion examples in the man files, but damn, every other reasonably sized CLI app would be so much easier to use, if you had just a dozen or two of examples at the end of the man file.
- no92 3y agotldr pages do exactly this. https://tldr.sh https://tldr.sh
- djmips 3y agobless you - I had no idea this existed!
- odysseus 3y agobrew install tldr tldr ffmpeg
- Qwertious 3y ago`man` is "a documentation". It turns out there's more than one type of documentation, but lots of man-page writers didn't get the memo.
- firefoxd 3y agoI may be missing something, but the top answer is pretty good. And the comments even explain why searching for an answer on google might be difficult, and suggests how to.