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minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoIf you have a problem with man pages, you have a bigger problem.
minus-squareodium@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 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 Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·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-squarerussjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 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)
If you have a problem with man pages, you have a bigger problem.
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)