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Man pages bad (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago by 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Like all the examples on that page under the header "examples"?

Skill issue tbh.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

When you use the man pages from the terminal it's not so easy to skip to them

[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I think it's f to go forward one page, b for back. Down arrow goes down a line etc.

[–] simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds like you need to spend some time in man more

man find
/thing you want to find

Should be enough to skip right to what you want.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or I just use this instead

http://bropages.org/examples/77

[–] simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Seems like a lot of extra faffing about if you're already in a terminal with your hands on the keyboard to avoid learning how to use a tool explicitly built for that use case.

But sure. You do you boo.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

It's also a terminal application, but that one in particular is deprecated

This one isn't

https://tldr.inbrowser.app/pages/common/find

tldr is in my distro's repos so it's easy enough to install

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah it is. Just press pgdown and pgup or home and end for faster scrolling.