eager_eagle,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

man man

pineapplelover,

Is it just me or is man and --help kind of confusing to understand? Idk, I just have difficulty learning the commands that way.

milicent_bystandr,

That’s because you’re a woman.

runs for cover

ook_the_librarian, (edited )
@ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world avatar

man is self-paging and searchable. It uses some old-school emacs bindings like Ctrl + V from before PgDn was a standard key. So I’m not claiming it’s intuitive.

If cmd --help spews a bunch of info to the screen, you basically have to handle it with grep or less or go modern.

friend_of_satan,

Some man pages include examples, which I always greatly appreciate.

anarchy79, (edited )
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

Ha ha ha, no you are most certainly not alone, that’s gotta be one of the most common gripes with new users. Those things were written in the 70s and have remained unchanged since. It’s a standardization thing. :)

eager_eagle,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

I find –help to be often useful, but man is hard to sell. As a tool to know more details of an option or to know everything that’s available, it’s great. As a first contact with the CLI tool or a quick lookup, man past the first paragraph is often a waste of time. For most lookups cheat.sh is much quicker.

Though I’ve recently been using clipea with GPT-4, and it’s by far the best experience. Fastest way to have straightforward one-liners that do pretty much what you asked for.

powermaker450,
@powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

just need to be sure

Emanuel, (edited )

Guts’ theme plays

oyfrog, (edited )

This reminds me of the etymology of バカ (baka, stupid in Japanese).

I don’t know if that’s what’s intended or not.

cashews_best_nut,

tldr

cupcakezealot,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

spaceballs? oh shit there goes the planet

tdawg,

<span style="color:#323232;">curl cheat.sh/curl
</span>
65gmexl3,
@65gmexl3@lemmy.world avatar

this will be helpful, but looks like github repo is no longer being maintained

Hjalamanger,
@Hjalamanger@feddit.nu avatar

I first read this like “look, here is a image of a man” (-:

caseyweederman,

A miserable pile of secrets

VindianaJones,

Enough talk… Have at you!

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

Ecce homo!

mayst0ne,

man date always makes me chuckle

NovaPrime,
@NovaPrime@lemmy.ml avatar

You mean “history” right? Right?!

ook_the_librarian,
@ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world avatar

Ctrl + R, what a wonderful phrase.

uranibaba,

So many times I have looked up a command, used it and then forgotten the syntax. History is a life saver.

admin,

You would probably love mcfly github.com/cantino/mcfly

NovaPrime,
@NovaPrime@lemmy.ml avatar

Love this, but now I’m also realizing how awful my workflow is in general. More than half of the time when I get into a groove I don’t even switch directories between tasks and end up just calling the relative path like an animal 😆

uranibaba,

Just installed it! Love it, and I just learned that ctrl+r is a thing.

honeyontoast,

Man is too much for me. I can’t handle that many words at once, which is why I like using tldr

Driveway4964,

Yes babe I am real man, do you want to go skateboardz?

NaoPb,

I’ve never used it. Just typing /h -h --help and if that doesn’t work then I’m Googling it.

MellowSnow, (edited )

I legitimately don’t understand why people still insist on recommending it. Like it had its place, and it was awesome for what it was, but there are many better ways of displaying that info and better ways of searching for it. If it’s the only option, fine. Otherwise, I’m not parsing through that shit in a terminal.

Linkerbaan,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

It’s learned masochism to use the terminal for everything at this point.

ook_the_librarian,
@ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world avatar

I disagree that there are much better ways. When I have a question while I’m working in the terminal, it’s nice to have a searchable manual that’s in the terminal.

But I can certainly understand why modern manpages aren’t well-developed. That info is already somewhere else. And it’s good enough. It’s not like I’m paying people to write manpages.

ook_the_librarian, (edited )
@ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world avatar

“help is an invalid command. Use --help for help.”

I always feel like an idiot when a read an error message like that.

jaybone,

IT WAS EARTH ALL ALONG!!

mariusafa,

Without man i’m nothing

milicent_bystandr,

That’s what she said!

hides from angry feminists

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

Who are any of us but men?

Chickenstalker,

Man horse beach? Man steed sea? Man pony sand? What?

Jaeger,

Man horse shore?

snek, (edited )
@snek@lemmy.world avatar

man is a command in linux to bring up the manuals/docs

geeksforgeeks.org/man-command-in-linux-with-examp…

If you’re on a linux distro, you could type:

man ls which would fetch you the manual for ls, which lists files and dirs for you. However, I think it’s more common for users to use ls --help instead, which would show the same manual information.

(sorry if you already knew this, but it looked almost like you were asking what this means and then a bunch of linux users just joked around without explaining anything XD)

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

You are a good and kind person.

Here, have this country song: Merle Haggard - Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

You can lead a horse to water…

milicent_bystandr,

But you can’t make it RTFM?

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

Neigh.

spizzat2,

You didn’t see the battery staple?

milicent_bystandr,

That’s correct

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