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by euroderf 1363 days ago
Didn't GNU man pages use to have a lot more examples in the 90s ? At some point (IIRC) examples were purged. A great disservice.
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Y_Y 1363 days ago
I don't remember what exactly happened, but a lot of manpages moved over to `info` and `man` would just complain and send you there.

These days I use `tldr` (via `tealdeer`) and that usually spits out a few nice example commands.

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codeflo 1363 days ago
Was there a rationale?
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enriquto 1363 days ago
"The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents instead."
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