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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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[–] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.