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Man pages are fairly useless in my experience, at least compared to the internet. I can see where they had a place at some point though.
I’ll never understand someone’s need to “self own” by exposing the fact they either won’t or can’t read.
Man pages are great, you’re just not reading.
Look, I don't need all of the options, just give me an example command for the common use case
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/find.1.html
Jesus Christ, if I didn't know already what to type I would never figure it out
Like all the examples on that page under the header "examples"?
Skill issue tbh.
When you use the man pages from the terminal it's not so easy to skip to them
Sounds like you need to spend some time in
man moreShould be enough to skip right to what you want.
Or I just use this instead
http://bropages.org/examples/77
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.
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
I think it's f to go forward one page, b for back. Down arrow goes down a line etc.
Yeah it is. Just press pgdown and pgup or home and end for faster scrolling.