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It's fine when you've read the man page at least once. If you just cowboy your way through every task, you'll never even be aware of what your tools can do. Whi
by 5e92cb50239222b 3y ago
It's fine when you've read the man page at least once. If you just cowboy your way through every task, you'll never even be aware of what your tools can do. Which results in comments we've all seen: "I can't believe curl/Firefox/vim/readline/whatever can do something like that!" about something so trivial that every good poweruser/sysadmin has known it for decades (because it's in the man page).
- TheAceOfHearts 3y agoSure, but that's knowledge you pick up over years. You can't reasonably expect people to frontload all of it on the first pass with every single tool they interact with, especially when starting off. I've read through most of the man pages of every tool I use at least once, but it has taken me years, and I've done it incrementally.