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Oh Man !!

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[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really think tldr-esque snippets should be mandatory in manpages. Manpages are important documentation for when you already know how to use a program, but sometimes (always) I don't have 30 minutes to read the entire manual to figure out how to start using a program. The ffmpeg man is practically a book! Meanwhile tldr can give me exactly what I need to get started. If there's no tldr and I can't grep something out of the man, then I'm using a search engine.

[–] rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn’t that —help?

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not all programs have a --help, and --help doesn't always give you clear examples of how to use something. For example, ffmpeg's help gives a dump of all the options, and no examples of how you probably want to put them together.

[–] rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Gotcha I’m still learning Linux, thanks for the clarification.