do you have a favourite 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
I have a soft spot for "man ascii"
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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 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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@b0rk grep(1) because I have to pull it up every time I forget whether the string or the filename goes first! Also its example section is very good too.
@bretthaines the Mac grep 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 I...don't think I've ever found a man page readable, tbqh.
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@b0rk The entire perl ecosystem. perlfunc(1), perlsyn(1), etc.
@aredridel @b0rk You forgot perlre(1) which is pretty useful even if you're not writing Perl!
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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 man page for telnet changed my life around 1992. I can't remember exactly why, but hopefully by posting this it'll spur my memory and I can go look it up and remember it and I'll let you know.
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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 Awesome post idea
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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 it's `rsync` and it's not even close.
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@b0rk ascii(7)
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@b0rk I...don't think I've ever found a man page readable, tbqh.
@thatandromeda I have a hard time with them too, that's why I've been thinking about this
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@b0rk it's `rsync` and it's not even close.
@shnizmuffin what do you like about it? (also: you mean this one right? https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync)
i like that it takes a different approach to the SYNOPSIS and puts examples before the comprehensive list of all options, I haven't seen that a lot
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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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i regularly use that page to show the young ones at work why ^H (Ctrl-H) is backspace, ^I is tab and ^[ is literally escape, it's just a flipped bit in ascii (which i suspect is the reason the columns are laid out like that)
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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.
@d6 this is so cool, I've never looked at this before! makes me want to find out who wrote them.
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@aredridel @b0rk oh, my favorite there is perllol(1)
@arrjay @aredridel this is awesome, I love `perlcheat`, I've never seen anything like that in a 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 Off the dome, I feel like I remember the man page for find almost always getting me where I needed to go
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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 was always partial to `man man`.
Great to introduce people to `man` so they can bootstrap their command-line-fu.
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@bretthaines the Mac grep man page?
@b0rk yes, my work computer is a mac so that's the one I pull up more often. I forgot the Linux one is different
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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 always think
hier(7)is really neat
