Many Linux man pages have the thoroughness of a fortune cookie, so I can understand the skepticism.

Jackpot if they're just a pointer to an 'info' page.

I blew a few minds a week ago when I told my younger coworkers about man pages. I hit ‘em with the `man man` and one dude was like “whoa!”

`pgrep`/`pkill` HATE this trick! Learn how this renegade developer (relatively) easily exits their hanging SSH sessions without restarting their laptop.

I still struggle with the fact that I was (or delusional) an effective C programmer "back in the day" (before google etc) and all we had was "man" to look up std/x11 system calls.

Now I am dismayed with juniors who can't even be bothered to use google (or llms) to look up stuff on their first hiccup.

#include <old-man-shouting-at-clouds>

man ssh_config is even more interesting and hidden

ProxyCommand is fun

HN as a tabloid ... After all enquiring minds want to know!

Who doesn’t want you to know? Well, obviously, the man. That’s why you type man ssh, you’re forcing the man to tell you what he knows.

They're sticking it to the man

Working for the man eh?

sssshhhh...don't just give out secrets like that .

It’s been a while since I’ve heard RTFM

hahaha made me laugh, thanks :-D

How's that supposed to help? The ssh man page is about as close as you can get to a Platonic example of "uninformative pretend-documentation".