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by pif 521 days ago
What's a man page? [cit]
3 comments
johnisgood 521 days ago
"manual pages", type "man man" in your terminal.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/man.1.html

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TZubiri 520 days ago
Never type up man man, it might make the internet implpode.
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amelius 520 days ago
It's where people went for programming information before ChatGPT and even before StackOverflow.
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werdnapk 520 days ago
It's where people went for information "even before" the internet.
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pif 520 days ago
I'm sorry the sarcasm was not evident. I learnt to program when men were men, and man was man.
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