It would be cool if I could do something in the terminal like:

[jcolag@mastodon.social]

@afreytes They're not quite to that context-sensitive point (except for the website I've never heard of that seems to have gotten replaced by something else) but the couple of major "man pages are unreadable" options get an explanation at https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/good-alternatives-to-man-pages-every-linux-user-needs-to-know/

[pwloftus@pwl.farted.net]

@bram @afreytes That escalated quickly. Start with "man touch"

[mxfraud@tabletop.social]

@afreytes there is a website that does that, I'm not sure if they have a CLI.
It is self hostable* too.

I assume you know the site and would want that in a cli package (I'll link if you want tho)

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@bram HAHAHAH man is exactly the reason I want EXPLAIN instead LOL RTFM? fuck that

[bram@gamedev.lgbt]

@pwloftus @afreytes you first wanna see if they're open to touch so maybe "man nmap"

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mxfraud dunno the site, send link, much thanks

[bram@gamedev.lgbt]

@afreytes yeah unfortunately you're stuck between the two extremes of rtfm and ai :/

and i know which i prefer. reading docs is one of the most important skills in computer/programming literacy though, so it definitely cant hurt to start now ✨

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@bram yeah no, I'm too old

[pwloftus@pwl.farted.net]

@bram @afreytes Well you have to find them first "man find"

[mxfraud@tabletop.social]

@afreytes there is https://explainshell.com

There are probably CLI wrapper for it, but I cannot recommand any this second.

I do use this android app on f-droid to find new interesting commands (think unknown unknown):
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.inspiredandroid.linuxcommandbibliotheca

(I also found https://cheat.sh, but I never used it before )