this image comes to mind every time i use man pages
man man
Is 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 --help to be often useful, but man is 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, man past 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. :)
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 comad and it will give you some valid uses and example commands.
I knew about tldr, I'm old Linuxoid now, but didn't know you could contribute. I'll give it another go. By this point though... I've already been through the hellfire.
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!
That's basically just GNU programs
tldr
man date always makes me chuckle
Man is too much for me. I can't handle that many words at once, which is why I like using tldr
Using u and d instead of page up and down made it much more readable for me, then you don't have a whole page with every button press
I first read this like "look, here is a image of a man" (-:
A miserable pile of secrets
Enough talk… Have at you!
Ecce homo!
curl cheat.sh/curl
this will be helpful, but looks like github repo is no longer being maintained
Does this horse have a dog's tail?
Yes babe I am real man, do you want to go skateboardz?
I've never used it. Just typing /h -h --help and if that doesn't work then I'm Googling it.
Back in the 90s
I was in a very famous TV show...
Guts' theme plays
spaceballs? oh shit there goes the planet
You mean "history" right? Right?!
So many times I have looked up a command, used it and then forgotten the syntax. History is a life saver.
You would probably love mcfly https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
Love this, but now I'm also realizing how awful my workflow is in general. More than half of the time when I get into a groove I don't even switch directories between tasks and end up just calling the relative path like an animal 😆
Man horse beach? Man steed sea? Man pony sand? What?
You can lead a horse to water...
But you can't make it RTFM?
Neigh.
man is a command in linux to bring up the manuals/docs
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/man-command-in-linux-with-examples/
If you're on a linux distro, you could type:
man ls which would fetch you the manual for ls, which lists files and dirs for you. However, I think it's more common for users to use ls --help instead, which would show the same manual information.
(sorry if you already knew this, but it looked almost like you were asking what this means and then a bunch of linux users just joked around without explaining anything XD)
Just don't use ChatGPT or Bing AI
I will use Google Bard then
IT WAS EARTH ALL ALONG!!
Why doesn't he call the avangers is he stupid?
Without man i'm nothing
That's what she said!
*hides from angry feminists*
It's one small step for man.
One giant leap for a horse?
Can horses type yet?
Hint: :q!
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