Man pages are amazing, the day I learned how to read command syntax me y understanding of linux skyrocketed.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
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Reading man pages is a skill of it''s own and the quality of man pages vary. However the ways of figuring out how to do something. 'Command -h' or 'command --help' 'man command' Search online for 'command examples'.
Hey, I always check man pages, they are pretty usefull
This is how you end up being bullied by hyenas
Tldr ftw
I don't get what's so wrong with man. If the creator neglected to add a -h option, then there's at least a chance somebody made a man page.
I get confused every time I install a distro and man isn't installed by default. I guess I get the bare minimum philosophy, but it throws me off every time. First thing I install is vim, man, git, and probably a couple other things I can't remember right now.
I do like a decent man page that has examples for us dummies and I have found that they have improved a lot over the years.
tldr is a billion times better than man pages,
apt install tldr
Trusssssst
Agreed, in any context where I'd open man I'd rather tldr instead. If you needed to read chunks of documentation like in man I'd rather just google the docs instead than clunkily try to read in terminal.
The best was on arch because I had no idea how to use pacman, which I needed to install man, when I needed how to use pacman. I will have to take a look at tldr. I mostly use Debian without a desktop environment, but have an Arch VM for gaming here and there. Works out.
There are distros that don't install man by default? Crazy.
I once had to set up something on yocto. man pages matter.
If you're electing to use linux, you got time to burn. Spend a little time getting comfy with manpages. Little things like that really add up to being effective.
RTFM amaright guys?
man |lolcat
man <the package> | cowsay | lolcat
man ls | cowsay -y | cowthink -d | lolcat
"tldr pages. Simplified and community-driven man pages. The tldr pages are a community effort to simplify the beloved man pages with practical examples."
A lot of people in here need tldr before getting comfortable with man it seems
Honestly, I don't think I've used terminal in a year.
You sure you're a Linux user?
Yep, once you get your edge-cases sorted (like needing to run SketchUp 2016), Linux is set it and forget it for distros worth using.
This is only true for very limited usecases.
Are you saying man pages are bad or are you mocking those who don’t use it?
It was a /s meme, I thought it was obvious.
That’s what I thought too and had a good chuckle. But from the comments, it didn’t seem so.
They're saying don't read the manual that tells you how things work, just copypasta sudo command lists from some random blog like a normal person.
Everybody go into your terminal and type sudo giverickyallmybankinfo
sudo giverickyallmybankinfo
sudo: giverickyallmybankinfo: command not found
What to do next?
Yes.
yes in the sense of you saying man pages are bad or in the sense of you mocking those who don’t use it?
Mocking those that don't use them.
Laughs in RHCSA exam.
Yhea, you really learn to dig through the man pages and, if you didn't already know, learn that they are quite helpful.
Manpages are good reference documentation when you already know which tool to use and how to use it and just need to tweak something. They can often be overwhelming otherwise. Just look at the number of flags on any git command, for example.
You've nailed this here, yet get downvotes. The amount of times I've gone to a man page and my eyes glaze over. Really handy to learn new flags or if you forget, but as an introductory material. They don't work for everyone. People learn in different ways, sometimes by doing and my brain isn't wired this way.
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