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imwallytoday at 2:03 AM6 repliesview on HN

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!”


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AndrewDavistoday at 6:09 AM

Further blow their minds by showing them `apropos` https://manpages.debian.org/testing/man-db/apropos.1.en.html

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bombcartoday at 2:29 AM

Reminds me of the old canard of 'man woman'

Aardwolftoday at 10:01 AM

man, cat, lynx... We're all just creatures in a vast universe

aa-jvtoday at 9:21 AM

$ man -k <whatever>