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    Man pages bad (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] iopq 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Like all the examples on that page under the header "examples"?

    Skill issue tbh.

    [–] iopq 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    When you use the man pages from the terminal it's not so easy to skip to them

    [–] TimeNaan 1 points 10 months ago

    Yeah it is. Just press pgdown and pgup or home and end for faster scrolling.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Sounds like you need to spend some time in man more

    man find
/thing you want to find

    Should be enough to skip right to what you want.

    [–] iopq 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Or I just use this instead

    http://bropages.org/examples/77

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] iopq 1 points 10 months ago

    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

    [–] AncientMariner 1 points 10 months ago

    I think it's f to go forward one page, b for back. Down arrow goes down a line etc.