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when do you usually use the man page for a complex command line tool to answer a question you have? -
when do you usually use the man page for a complex command line tool to answer a question you have?@djfiander @b0rk and don’t even get me started on GNU texinfo making simple queries suffocate under a gateway drug to RSI viewer (although general props to the depth)
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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 using #freebsd and having started on SCO Unix, I’m used to better than average man pages. And I learned sco before the web: so man and Usenet.
—help is my first stop these days.
Knowing how to use man means I can work offline too. So practicing that skill when a fallback is present is a worthy investment