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IMO, if you’re just interested in grepping through options, info is better at that, compared to man. I feel like I’m fighting against man when I look at the man
by klodolph 3y ago
IMO, if you’re just interested in grepping through options, info is better at that, compared to man. I feel like I’m fighting against man when I look at the man page for SoX or rsync. I find some --option listed in the option list, but I want to see more details about how it works—but when I grep for --option, I have to scroll past 20 or 30 references to --option like, “--something is similar to --option except X, Y, Z”. It’s a complete slog just looking up an option.
In info, I can find this information a lot faster.