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Man pages are amazing, the day I learned how to read command syntax me y understanding of linux skyrocketed.

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what’s wrong with man pages?

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They’re the best. I mean, just look at the alternative that Windows offers… oh wait there isn’t any.

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Some man pages are just gigantic lists of unintuitive parameters in alphabetical order with no usage examples and even if you know how to search for text in a man page (forward slash then the text you want to search for) you’re just stabbing in the dark.

Others are excellent.

The problem with man pages is that you never know if you’re getting the former or the latter.

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I’m so fucking sick of every Linux meme being negative… Like are we supporting the community or actively trying to sabotage it?

Fuxk all these memes

Linux makes the word turn

Learn it and support it

This all started as irony, but it has gone too far

Regroup and get creative you sad intelligent fucks

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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’.

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Man pages are great to have, all documentation easily accessible, mostly complete and directly available in your terminal.

Compare this to the shitshow that is git --help in windows opening a stupid browser. Somebody should be defenestrated for that decission.

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alias git="DISPLAY= git"

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