Man pages bad
Man pages bad
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Man pages are fairly useless in my experience, at least compared to the internet. I can see where they had a place at some point though.
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I’ll never understand someone’s need to “self own” by exposing the fact they either won’t or can’t read.
Man pages are great, you’re just not reading.
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Look, I don't need all of the options, just give me an example command for the common use case
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/find.1.html
Jesus Christ, if I didn't know already what to type I would never figure it out
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Like all the examples on that page under the header "examples"?
Skill issue tbh.
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When you use the man pages from the terminal it's not so easy to skip to them
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Yeah it is. Just press pgdown and pgup or home and end for faster scrolling.
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Sounds like you need to spend some time in
man moreundefined
man find /thing you want to find
Should be enough to skip right to what you want.
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Or I just use this instead
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Seems like a lot of extra faffing about if you're already in a terminal with your hands on the keyboard to avoid learning how to use a tool explicitly built for that use case.
But sure. You do you boo.
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It's also a terminal application, but that one in particular is deprecated
This one isn't
https://tldr.inbrowser.app/pages/common/find
tldr is in my distro's repos so it's easy enough to install
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I think it's f to go forward one page, b for back. Down arrow goes down a line etc.
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