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Man pages were always intended to be concise reference material, not tutorials or full docs. More akin to commented header files or a program's --help output, b
by bityard 8mo ago
Man pages were always intended to be concise reference material, not tutorials or full docs. More akin to commented header files or a program's --help output, before the latter became common.
(GNU info tried to be a more comprehensive CLI documentation system but never fully caught on.)
- bombcar 8mo agoman pages got replaced by --help in many, many cases. GNU info was an interesting experiment but it got replaced by online wikis.