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every time i can't remember how to use a command (lemmy.world)
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this image comes to mind every time i use man pages

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

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.