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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Man pages are fairly useless in my experience, at least compared to the internet. I can see where they had a place at some point though.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year 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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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

    [–] simpleslipeagle 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    Skill issue tbh.

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

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

    [–] simpleslipeagle 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] simpleslipeagle 1 points 1 year 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.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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