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by GibBreakPls 2947 days ago
There is a whole industry for distilling manpages down to stupid chunks and making blog posts it seems.
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Reading through a long man page in terminal to get to el' result and then find and use cmd extensions. vs 2s google "how to inurl: tcpdump http packet"
You are doing it wrong if you are "reading through a long man page".
What is the „correct“ way? (real question, I am curious)
You can search man pages by "/" then your search term, then press "n" to cycle forward, "N" to cycle back through occurrences.
grep is pretty handy, -C 5 or so will get you a nice amount of context. Maybe GibBreakPls has better tricks.