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I blew a few minds a week ago when I told my younger coworkers about man pages. I hit ‘em with the `man man` and one dude was like “whoa!”

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• bombcar 7mo ago
  Reminds me of the old canard of 'man woman'
• AndrewDavis 7mo ago
  Further blow their minds by showing them `apropos` https://manpages.debian.org/testing/man-db/apropos.1.en.html https://manpages.debian.org/testing/man-db/apropos.1.en.html
  • riffraff 7mo ago
    I remember my first days with Linux/Unix and being taught about man and apropos and info. But somehow I could never find anything useful via apropos! With many years of insight, I think I probably never updated the database.
  • SEJeff 7mo ago
    man -k, apropos, but less to type
  • coldpie 7mo ago
    I'm 100% certain this is user error, but I have not once gotten apropos to give me any output other than "nothing appropriate."
• aa-jv 7mo ago
  $ man -k <whatever>
• Aardwolf 7mo ago
  man, cat, lynx... We're all just creatures in a vast universe
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