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RTFMP - I’d read the man pages if I could decipher them. 😁
Mostly /s
I can relate : I'm a noob. I often don't understand the manual, so I look for forum posts that are clearer/ easier to follow/more directly related to my problem and most of the time I find some.
I can't count the number of times I swear I read every man page and I can't figure out how to structure my arguments--especially when they are nested or conditional.
I especially wish more man pages had common examples. Sometimes an example can say more than a paragraph of explanation.
I feel like you'd love
tldr.A thousand times this. It's all well and good telling us what each option does, but if we don't know how to form the command around the various arguments and paths, then it's all fairly useless.
Caddy when I was trying to learn setting up encrypted hello.