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Obilgatory reminder to actually read the manpage. They were written for a reason. If you can't do that then either install a version of the "tldr" program like "tealdeer" or use
curl cheat.sh/<program-name>
I refuse to read manpages because I hate mansplaining and I wont have The Man tell me what to do.
I know right, like give me womanpages I'd read those
I mean...
alias woman=man
?Are feet pics included too?
Personally I find the built in
--help
option to be much more useful than manpages. Manpages are excessively wordy and almost never have info I'm looking for without having to search.Built in help options usually concisely list all the options with a brief explanation of what they do. That's perfect.