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do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
@b0rk I am actually surprised how many people here don't know https://tldr.sh. Or at least, thats a feeling I had while reading the comments on bad manpages.
`$ tldr tar`
It's a user composed tl;dr; printing out commonly used commands.
And recently I learned from https://youtube.com/@breadonpenguins about cht.sh. Its even better. Simply type `$ curl cht.sh/cups` and you get a awesome cheatsheet covering basic Linux printer things.
It somehow aggregates multiple sources. One of the sources is actually the tldr.sh page. -
do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
@b0rk My bash_history thinks I've used
man gpgthe most lately but that is not an endorsement 😭 -
do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
@b0rk I see a sibling mentioned ascii(5). urxvt(7) is a great reference to terminal escape codes, broadly applicable even if it's not the terminal you use. There's probably a better reference but it's the one I know to turn to when I have questions.
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do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
@b0rk `curl` is heads and shoulders above most other man pages I've read. Also, I have a terrible memory when it comes to curl, so it's always useful.
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do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
@b0rk ffmpeg's seems pretty cool. It has graphs, even.
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@arrjay @aredridel this is awesome, I love `perlcheat`, I've never seen anything like that in a man page
@b0rk @arrjay @aredridel perlre(1) — along with perlretut(1) and perlrequick(1) — are the Complete Beginner's Guide to Regular Expressions. The language is quite gentle, especially for a subject that so many people find difficult.
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do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
@b0rk I hate to be that nerd, but bash(1). I have had this bookmarked for years and years because it's such a good reference.
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@b0rk Special shout out to the official web address, since it's got hyperlinks on all the options:
@shnizmuffin thanks, will change my link!
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do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
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do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
@b0rk I like the man page for strace, because it groups the options by categories: General/Startup/Tracing/Filtering/Output. This makes it easier to discover what is available for a specific purpose. Other man pages just list the options strictly alphabetically (let's say for example the GNU ls man page).
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do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
@b0rk sox(1), for Sound eXchange (the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation). It's very long, yet gives examples of all of its filters and complicated syntax.
Its sound format conversion section got so long that it ended up in soxformat(7)
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@technicaladept @nabnux i think for bash specifically I might prefer to use the html bash reference manual to reference the docs https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html (which I believe has the same content but with better formatting)
@b0rk @nabnux these day's yes. Back in the day the next best was to send it to the line printer and read it on a fan fold continuous feed printout. Many people I knew kept a copy on their desk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_stationery#/media/File:Endlospapier_fan-fold_paper.jpg
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@b0rk I like the man page for strace, because it groups the options by categories: General/Startup/Tracing/Filtering/Output. This makes it easier to discover what is available for a specific purpose. Other man pages just list the options strictly alphabetically (let's say for example the GNU ls man page).
@raimue ooh that's really cool, I don't know how I never noticed that! I think I always assume man pages will be hard to use and I often don't even bother to check and miss it when they're actually well organized
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do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
@b0rk the Linux man pages for sync(2) and setpriority(2) since they list perfectly sane deviations from the behavior that POSIX mandates.
Sync being synchronous instead of asynchronous and nice/setpriority acting on thread level and not on per process level.
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@b0rk it's an uncool example these days but...
i always really appreciated how `man perl` links to 40+ other man pages that collectively describe the entire language and its standard library and tools. so if you are trying to learn about it everything you need is there and can be browsed or searched for. the prose is fairly engaging and well-written.
(these days online might make more sense but at the time having it available offline in a very lightweight format that was readable from the terminal was great.)
P.S. the manual pages are actually produced by perldoc which is also a very cool related tool.
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do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
@b0rk I find the BUGS section on Linux's man page cu(1) pretty amusing. It simply says "This program does not work very well".
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do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
@b0rk my favorite one is man after midnight (gimme gimme gimme!)
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030
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@b0rk my favorite one is man after midnight (gimme gimme gimme!)
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030
@b0rk “The maintainer of man is a good friend of mine, and one day six years ago I jokingly said to him that if you invoke man after midnight it should print "gimme gimme gimme", because of the Abba song called "Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight":
Well, he did actually put it in.” -
do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
literally anything at man.openbsd.org is amazing
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do you have a favourite man page? thinking of writing a short blog post exploring man pages and what makes a good one and I'd love some more examples
my contribution: I think it's cool that `man curl` includes an example for every single option
@b0rk top(1) on linux. starts out with how to quit and how to get interactive help, ends with a "stupid tricks" section providing food for thought about what top actually does.
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