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[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 75 points 7 months ago

You need to read them apparently? I don't know, this is weird

[-] chuso@kbin.social 37 points 7 months ago

Yeah, many people don't want to read and understand, just copy and paste.
I saw that in a lot of people I worked with on projects, they just look for something to copy and paste from the Internet without even trying to understand what it does. Just looking for some command without even paying attention to the text around it.
I remember one girl once that I gave her the link to the documentation explaining step by step what she needed to do, a link I had to find myself and pass it to her, of course, even when it was her task. Those steps included some alternatives like "if you are in this situation, run this command, but if you are in this other situation, run this other command" but she ignored all the instructions on that page and started copying and pasting every command that was found there. When I asked her what she was doing and why she was running every command there without reading the explanations around them, she said she thought she just had to run all the commands on that page.

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

And this is why I recommend those people to just use tealdeer/TLDR

[-] chuso@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

What people? If you are referring to the people I mentioned in my example who don't read the text next to the commands explaining what they do, that seems to be also the output tealdeer produces, so I don't know how it would help.

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They're man pages that are significantly reduced and only include the common commands. People who copy paste, do so usually because the directions or manual are too long and it intimates their feeble minds.

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