this image comes to mind every time i use man pages
And then the manpage goes:
ThE fUlL dOcUmEnTaTiOn CaN bE vIeWeD wItH “info blah invocation”
Stop trying to make info a thing. It’s not going to be a thing.
I used a tool yesterday whose manpage told me to look into --help for full list of commands. The audacity!
They could’ve just copy-pasted it! And --help should be a brief, easy-to-understand list of commands and explanations, not an extension
Some examples and common uses would be nice…
Yeah. I recommend the TLDR terminal tool. You can contribute command TLDRs. If there is a one for said command, you can type
tldr man
and it will give you some valid uses and example commands.
That’s basically just GNU programs
Especially when you don’t have a US keyboard. How the fuck am I supposed to navigate through the info document when the key combination to follow links is Ctrl+] and ] itself is hidden behind some modifier combo?
Sounds like it needs better localization
It needs to die in a fire. All hail man pages!
man date
always makes me chuckleMan
is too much for me. I can’t handle that many words at once, which is why I like usingtldr
Using u and d instead of page up and down made it much more readable for me, then you don’t have a whole page with every button press
I first read this like “look, here is a image of a man” (-:
A miserable pile of secrets
Enough talk… Have at you!
Ecce homo!
curl cheat.sh/curl
this will be helpful, but looks like github repo is no longer being maintained
I’ve never used it. Just typing /h -h --help and if that doesn’t work then I’m Googling it.
I legitimately don’t understand why people still insist on recommending it. Like it had its place, and it was awesome for what it was, but there are many better ways of displaying that info and better ways of searching for it. If it’s the only option, fine. Otherwise, I’m not parsing through that shit in a terminal.
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
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 😆
Yes babe I am real man, do you want to go skateboardz?
spaceballs? oh shit there goes the planet
Back in the 90s
I was in a very famous TV show…
Just don’t use ChatGPT or Bing AI
I will use Google Bard then
Guts’ theme plays
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?
IT WAS EARTH ALL ALONG!!
This made me laugh out loud for real.