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by mrspeaker 3622 days ago
Yes! For some reason I still always type `man whatever` when I need to do something with a tool... even though I'm just presented with 50 pages of gibberish that I scroll through for a few pages then go to Stack Overflow.

The problem I usually find is that man pages give equal importance to every possible flag - making really hard to figure out which elements you most likely will need to do common tasks.

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Whoever answers your question on Stack Overflow likely got their information from a man page.