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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you have a problem with man pages, you have a bigger problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have no problems with small man pages. My problems with manpages arise when a command has hundreds of arguments and I need to find a very specific combination.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Searching helps. Open a man page, press forward slash, type your arg, press Enter. Press "n" to get to the next hit or Shift+n to go to the previous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer is handy to have and can condense the info down quite a bit in a lot of cases.

(Tealdeer is a play on the original utility's name tldr)