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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

Skill issue tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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