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minus-square@odiumlink2•1 year agoI have no problems with small man pages. My problems with manpages arise when a command has hundreds of arguments and I need to find a very specific combination.
minus-squareAvid Amoebalinkfedilink4•edit-21 year agoSearching helps. Open a man page, press forward slash, type your arg, press Enter. Press “n” to get to the next hit or Shift+n to go to the previous.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoThis https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer is handy to have and can condense the info down quite a bit in a lot of cases. (Tealdeer is a play on the original utility’s name tldr)
I have no problems with small man pages. My problems with manpages arise when a command has hundreds of arguments and I need to find a very specific combination.
Searching helps. Open a man page, press forward slash, type your arg, press Enter. Press “n” to get to the next hit or Shift+n to go to the previous.
This https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer is handy to have and can condense the info down quite a bit in a lot of cases.
(Tealdeer is a play on the original utility’s name
tldr)