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.
Some man pages include examples, which I always greatly appreciate.
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
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!
tldr
I first read this like “look, here is a image of a man” (-:
A miserable pile of secrets
man date
always makes me chucklecurl cheat.sh/curl
this will be helpful, but looks like github repo is no longer being maintained
Man
is too much for me. I can’t handle that many words at once, which is why I like usingtldr
Guts’ theme plays
spaceballs? oh shit there goes the planet
Back in the 90s
I was in a very famous TV show…
Yes babe I am real man, do you want to go skateboardz?
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
IT WAS EARTH ALL ALONG!!
I’ve never used it. Just typing /h -h --help and if that doesn’t work then I’m Googling it.
This reminds me of the etymology of バカ (baka, stupid in Japanese).
I don’t know if that’s what’s intended or not.