this image comes to mind every time i use man pages

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    I used a tool yesterday whose manpage told me to look into --help for full list of commands. The audacity!

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      They could’ve just copy-pasted it! And --help should be a brief, easy-to-understand list of commands and explanations, not an extension

      • Ann Archy
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        21 year ago

        Some examples and common uses would be nice…

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          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.

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            21 year ago

            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.