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I do not get the idea of buying a "book" to learn a *nix utility that explains itself in a single man page when all you need to learn is just a few keyboard sho
by raldu 13y ago
I do not get the idea of buying a "book" to learn a *nix utility that explains itself in a single man page when all you need to learn is just a few keyboard shortcuts.
Obsessively focusing on the tool does not magically improve productivity.
- danneu 13y agoA manpage doesn't help you arrive at a workflow or show the forest for the trees or give field advice from someone that uses the tool or reveal ways to integrate the tool with other programs.
- harrytuttle 13y agoNeither do most of these ebooks. They are usually poorly rehashed manpages stuffed full of errors. At least the manpages are openly reviewed.
- easytiger 13y agoNo but 45 minutes using it will. Not saying this book is no good, but 90% of tech books on softer subjects like this aren't worth the paper they are printed on. They hark back to the day when I first walked into Sun and saw a dozen volumes xn versions for the xmotif and xlib reference manuals.
- mheathr 13y agoDtrace has tomes and many hours expounded upon its usage; sadly it is not also available on Linux.
- vidarh 13y agoDtrace is also orders of magnitude more complicated than tmux.
- harrytuttle 13y agoAgree with this entirely. The annoying thing about all these eBooks is that the effort would be better spent improving the manual pages for the existing product rather than yanking a few dollars out of some people for some "special treatment".
- nonrecursive 13y agoI know! It's really bizarre. It's almost like some people have different preferences from you or something. Let's spend more time talking about how people with different preferences are weird and stupid.
- rhizome 13y agoAre there really people who prefer to learn from thin-repackage ebooks and ghetto screencasts?
- nonrecursive 13y agoBoy I sure hope not. In case there are, let's continue to imply that they're making poor choices. While we're at it, let's also shit on other people's work which we haven't read so that we can make sure that as many people as possible can feel our contempt. Especially when the authors of said work are right here, right in this very thread!
- mkartic 13y agoman pages aren't tutorials. While it pays to go through the man pages of certain essential utilities, not all man pages are created equally. Try reading ffmpeg's man page to learn how to use it. But its indispensable once you learn your way around the command.