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halaproyesterday at 10:15 AM2 repliesview on HN

I was never able to properly parse large man pages, I'm so happy that llms can now prepare half a usable command without spending an hour reading a time without a single usage example.


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jeremyscanvicyesterday at 10:49 AM

What I usually do when I have to read large man pages like bash(1) is I read them as PDFs:

man -Tpdf bash | zathura -

Replace zathura with any PDF viewer reading from stdin or just save the PDF. Hope that can be useful to someone!

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throw-the-towelyesterday at 1:44 PM

`tldr` is also great. It's essentially a collection of example invocations of *nix commands.

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