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by piyh 1161 days ago
Man pages are too long and technical for 70% of casual use when the answers are a Google away. Normal usage patterns don't involve using every option, and that's what man pages are focused on documenting.
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I'm not sure why a video of a 60's TV show would be useful when you're trying to get an explanation of command line options for common posix commands. But you do you.