this image comes to mind every time i use man pages
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And then the manpage goes:
ThE fUlL dOcUmEnTaTiOn CaN bE vIeWeD wItH “info blah invocation”
Stop trying to make info a thing. It’s not going to be a thing.
I used a tool yesterday whose manpage told me to look into --help for full list of commands. The audacity!
They could’ve just copy-pasted it! And --help should be a brief, easy-to-understand list of commands and explanations, not an extension
Some examples and common uses would be nice…
Yeah. I recommend the TLDR terminal tool. You can contribute command TLDRs. If there is a one for said command, you can type
tldr comadand it will give you some valid uses and example commands.
Especially when you don’t have a US keyboard. How the fuck am I supposed to navigate through the info document when the key combination to follow links is Ctrl+] and ] itself is hidden behind some modifier combo?
Sounds like it needs better localization
It needs to die in a fire. All hail man pages!
Does this horse have a dog’s tail?
Why doesn’t he call the avangers is he stupid?
man datealways makes me chuckleWithout man i’m nothing
That’s what she said!
*hides from angry feminists*
man manIs it just me or is man and --help kind of confusing to understand? Idk, I just have difficulty learning the commands that way.
I find
--helpto be often useful, butmanis hard to sell. As a tool to know more details of an option or to know everything that’s available, it’s great. As a first contact with the CLI tool or a quick lookup,manpast the first paragraph is often a waste of time. For most lookups cheat.sh is much quicker.Though I’ve recently been using clipea with GPT-4, and it’s by far the best experience. Fastest way to have straightforward one-liners that do pretty much what you asked for.
Ha ha ha, no you are most certainly not alone, that’s gotta be one of the most common gripes with new users. Those things were written in the 70s and have remained unchanged since. It’s a standardization thing. :)
That’s because you’re a woman.
*runs for cover*
It’s one small step for man.
One giant leap for a horse?Can horses type yet?
Just don’t use ChatGPT or Bing AI
I will use Google Bard then
You mean “history” right? Right?!
Ctrl + R, what a wonderful phrase.
Is that a dog?
I’ve never used it. Just typing /h -h --help and if that doesn’t work then I’m Googling it.
“help is an invalid command. Use --help for help.”
I always feel like an idiot when a read an error message like that.
