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    [–] odium@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I have no problems with small man pages. My problems with manpages arise when a command has hundreds of arguments and I need to find a very specific combination.

    [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Searching helps. Open a man page, press forward slash, type your arg, press Enter. Press "n" to get to the next hit or Shift+n to go to the previous.

    [–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 points 1 year ago

    This https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer is handy to have and can condense the info down quite a bit in a lot of cases.

    (Tealdeer is a play on the original utility's name tldr)