this image comes to mind every time i use man pages
man man
Is it just me or is man and --help kind of confusing to understand? Idk, I just have difficulty learning the commands that way.
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I find
--help
to be often useful, butman
is hard to sell. As a tool to know more details of an option or to know everything that’s available, it’s great. As a first contact with the CLI tool or a quick lookup,man
past the first paragraph is often a waste of time. For most lookups cheat.sh is much quicker.Though I’ve recently been using clipea with GPT-4, and it’s by far the best experience. Fastest way to have straightforward one-liners that do pretty much what you asked for.
Ha ha ha, no you are most certainly not alone, that’s gotta be one of the most common gripes with new users. Those things were written in the 70s and have remained unchanged since. It’s a standardization thing. :)
man
is self-paging and searchable. It uses some old-school emacs bindings like Ctrl + V from before PgDn was a standard key. So I’m not claiming it’s intuitive.If
cmd --help
spews a bunch of info to the screen, you basically have to handle it withgrep
orless
or go modern.That’s because you’re a woman.
*runs for cover*
just need to be sure
tldr
Man
is too much for me. I can’t handle that many words at once, which is why I like usingtldr
man date
always makes me chuckleYes babe I am real man, do you want to go skateboardz?
Does this horse have a dog’s tail?
Back in the 90s
I was in a very famous TV show…
curl cheat.sh/curl
this will be helpful, but looks like github repo is no longer being maintained
Man horse beach? Man steed sea? Man pony sand? What?
You didn’t see the battery staple?
That’s correct
You can lead a horse to water…
But you can’t make it RTFM?
Neigh.
man
is a command in linux to bring up the manuals/docshttps://www.geeksforgeeks.org/man-command-in-linux-with-examples/
If you’re on a linux distro, you could type:
man ls
which would fetch you the manual forls
, which lists files and dirs for you. However, I think it’s more common for users to usels --help
instead, which would show the same manual information.(sorry if you already knew this, but it looked almost like you were asking what this means and then a bunch of linux users just joked around without explaining anything XD)
You are a good and kind person.
Here, have this country song: Merle Haggard - Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)
You mean “history” right? Right?!
So many times I have looked up a command, used it and then forgotten the syntax. History is a life saver.
You would probably love mcfly https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
Just installed it! Love it, and I just learned that ctrl+r is a thing.
Love this, but now I’m also realizing how awful my workflow is in general. More than half of the time when I get into a groove I don’t even switch directories between tasks and end up just calling the relative path like an animal 😆
Ctrl + R, what a wonderful phrase.
Just don’t use ChatGPT or Bing AI
I will use Google Bard then
IT WAS EARTH ALL ALONG!!
Without man i’m nothing
That’s what she said!
*hides from angry feminists*
Who are any of us but men?
Why doesn’t he call the avangers is he stupid?
This made me laugh out loud for real.