every time i can't remember how to use a command
every time i can't remember how to use a command
this image comes to mind every time i use man pages
man manIs it just me or is man and --help kind of confusing to understand? Idk, I just have difficulty learning the commands that way.
I find
--helpto be often useful, butmanis 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,manpast 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.
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. :)
That's because you're a woman.
*runs for cover*
manis 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 --helpspews a bunch of info to the screen, you basically have to handle it withgreporlessor go modern.
just need to be sure
And then the manpage goes:
ThE fUlL dOcUmEnTaTiOn CaN bE vIeWeD wItH "info blah invocation"
Stop trying to make info a thing. It's not going to be a thing.
That's basically just GNU programs
tldrManis too much for me. I can't handle that many words at once, which is why I like usingtldrUsing u and d instead of page up and down made it much more readable for me, then you don't have a whole page with every button press
man datealways makes me chuckleI first read this like "look, here is a image of a man" (-:
A miserable pile of secrets
Enough talk… Have at you!
Ecce homo!
curl cheat.sh/curlthis will be helpful, but looks like github repo is no longer being maintained
Does this horse have a dog's tail?
Yes babe I am real man, do you want to go skateboardz?
I've never used it. Just typing /h -h --help and if that doesn't work then I'm Googling it.
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.
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.
It's learned masochism to use the terminal for everything at this point.
"help is an invalid command. Use --help for help."
I always feel like an idiot when a read an error message like that.
Just don't use ChatGPT or Bing AI
I will use Google Bard then
Guts' theme plays
spaceballs? oh shit there goes the planet
You mean "history" right? Right?!
So many times I have looked up a command, used it and then forgotten the syntax. History is a life saver.
You would probably love mcfly https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
Ctrl + R, what a wonderful phrase.
Man horse beach? Man steed sea? Man pony sand? What?
You didn't see the battery staple?
That's correct
Man horse shore?
Why doesn't he call the avangers is he stupid?
IT WAS EARTH ALL ALONG!!
It's one small step for man.
One giant leap for a horse?Can horses type yet?
This made me laugh out loud for real.
Without man i'm nothing
That's what she said!
*hides from angry feminists*
Who are any of us but men?
Is that a dog?
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.