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thaumasiotestoday at 8:04 AM1 replyview on HN

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".


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hrmtst93837today at 9:07 AM

If the ssh man page were any lazier it would just be a list of arguments with no context at all, so I get the frustation. The tricky bit is that much of the "secret menu" knowledge about ssh only lives in blog posts and random issue comments, which makes the doc gap feel intentional at times. If you want real examples or usage patterns you pretty much have to scrape Stack Overflow or crawl through dotfiles in public repos hoping someone else already fought the same fight.