@b0rk note: Because Debian requires man pages, I notice that lot of the are written by debian developers, so I assume also a lot of developers don’t use man pages. (note also that writing man pages was very difficult, not just content, but technically: complex non standardized language, various tools, and I still not sure there is a guide on conventions)
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when do you usually use the man page for a complex command line tool to answer a question you have?@b0rk for git I agree, but that it is mostly to find the right subcomands (or recipes), so like searching for unknown/forgotten commands. But curl, ssh, rsync: i find easier: is -P or -p or -e … to specify the port? How to filter, etc. I find googling slower, with obsolete comments or without good explanation (eg putting a lot of short options together) so I must go again to man page.