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Do not homosexualize the goat.

Not really. They are usually messy and overly long yet lack a decent structure; quite the opposite of elegant. Man pages pertaining to standardized functions also often have the problem that they slightly differ from said standard, especially Linux's.

>>1065727

It's not a Goat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildebeest

>>1065725 (OP)

gaze, from SourceMage GNU/Linux

>>1065727

It's a GNU, though...

>>1065725 (OP)

they are so long that i wont remember anything

>>1065732

The standardized functions also often have lawyer english which still fails at being unambiguous.

>>1065725 (OP)

>Do any of you read them for fun?

You have a strange idea of fun.

Man pages are really nice for reference, but fuck those people who think they need to write an entire book in that format. Looking at you, rsync. For anything longer than two or three pages Texinfo is better suited.

No, linuxfags can't into documentation.

>>1065874

>No, linuxfags can't into documentation.

Yes it is really hard to find the documentation for the GNU operating system, when you type "linux documentation" in a search engine, because all you get is the documentation of the kernel.

I mostly like GNU's documentation, for example Guix System has a great documentation, Guile's documentation is good, findutils are ok too.

>>1065881

man pages are annoying tho. i usually just want to know what the parameters that i need to do thing are. its much easier to put how to do thing in a search engine since someone usually has had the same problem and theres a working command that you can just copy and paste. with man pages i have to read the long extremely verbose explanations of every parameter and their possible options before i can do something and i already forgot half of it at that point.

>>1065884

>man X|grep foo

It's not hard.

>>1065869

Agreed. Only OS I've ever found myself losing track of time because I like the man pages so much.

I'd recommend everyone browse the man-pages for random programs on OpenBSD, you're practically guaranteed to find some settings you never knew you wanted, and it's just fun.

>for fun

I'm not autistic.

>man shitprogram

>/shit option

>n

>n

>n

>n

>q

OpenBSD manpages are pretty nice though.

>>1065948

gb2reddit

>>1065725 (OP)

>Do any of you read them for fun?

Who but a nigger doesn't?

Most pages could do with an example section, it used to be more common.

The wording is always specific, and paying attention that word "X" was used instead of similar word "Y" is often helpful in understanding why what you typed didn't work as you expected.

>>1065814

>they are so long that i wont remember anything

>nigger can't into read

>admits it

>>1065891

>>man X|grep foo

or:

man X

/foo

>>1066010

True. Having just spent the best part of a day figuring out how to set up what should have been a simple test network config (a pox on your houses, network-manager and systemd-resolved developers), I have to say the dnsmasq man page which ultimately saved the day is about the most concise format you could put a lot of complex information into.

Reading them for fun? Now that's real autism, I take my hat off to OP.

>>1065869

this.

also the openbsd's FAQs are superb, too.