A lot of people in here need tldr before getting comfortable with man it seems
Why is Simba pogging
Hey, I always check man pages, they are pretty usefull
This is how you end up being bullied by hyenas
Was this bullshit meme created by AI?
Tldr ftw
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.
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.
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
Like all the examples on that page under the header “examples”?
Skill issue tbh.
When you use the man pages from the terminal it’s not so easy to skip to them
Sounds like you need to spend some time in
man moreman find /thing you want to findShould be enough to skip right to what you want.
Or I just use this instead
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.
I think it’s f to go forward one page, b for back. Down arrow goes down a line etc.
Yeah it is. Just press pgdown and pgup or home and end for faster scrolling.
Man pages are amazing, the day I learned how to read command syntax me y understanding of linux skyrocketed.
Honestly, I don’t think I’ve used terminal in a year.
You sure you’re a Linux user?
Yep, once you get your edge-cases sorted (like needing to run SketchUp 2016), Linux is set it and forget it for distros worth using.
This is only true for very limited usecases.
The internet is full of bad advice.
Man pages are never wrong.
Am I the only one using tldr?
Well today my life just got easier. Thank you for the recommendation!
Tldr is awesome.
Laughs in RHCSA exam.
Yhea, you really learn to dig through the man pages and, if you didn’t already know, learn that they are quite helpful.
If you’re electing to use linux, you got time to burn. Spend a little time getting comfy with manpages. Little things like that really add up to being effective.
Are you saying man pages are bad or are you mocking those who don’t use it?
It was a /s meme, I thought it was obvious.
That’s what I thought too and had a good chuckle. But from the comments, it didn’t seem so.
Yes.
yes in the sense of you saying man pages are bad or in the sense of you mocking those who don’t use it?
Mocking those that don’t use them.
They’re saying don’t read the manual that tells you how things work, just copypasta sudo command lists from some random blog like a normal person.
Everybody go into your terminal and type sudo giverickyallmybankinfo
sudo giverickyallmybankinfo
sudo: giverickyallmybankinfo: command not foundWhat to do next?
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’.
Actually man page good
