Comment on Gems from the man page trenches (2016)Comments−euroderf3yDidn't GNU man pages use to have a lot more examples in the 90s ? At some point (IIRC) examples were purged. A great disservice.−Y_Y3yI don't remember what exactly happened, but a lot of manpages moved over to `info` and `man` would just complain and send you there.These days I use `tldr` (via `tealdeer`) and that usually spits out a few nice example commands.−codeflo3yWas there a rationale?−enriquto3y"The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents instead."
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Didn't GNU man pages use to have a lot more examples in the 90s ? At some point (IIRC) examples were purged. A great disservice.
I don't remember what exactly happened, but a lot of manpages moved over to `info` and `man` would just complain and send you there.
These days I use `tldr` (via `tealdeer`) and that usually spits out a few nice example commands.
Was there a rationale?
"The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents instead."