6 Sep
2006
6 Sep
'06
14:31
On 9/6/06, Basil Chupin
and reading the man pages is like trying to understand ancient Latin. (Manuals are specifically written for those who don't need manuals.)
LOL! that is so freaking true. It boggles my mind that a man or info page often lacks even a basic: "here are some commom command examples:" section. Gees, how hard could it be to identify the top 4 or 5 uses for a command, and give examples of these? I've often though about just doing this for myself, as a way to work through learing various tools, and then I would have a nice functional cheat sheet for lots of command. <sigh> time is such a rare commodity ... Peter