[TUHS] man-page style

Chet Ramey chet.ramey at case.edu
Mon Nov 19 12:59:51 AEST 2018


On 11/16/18 4:29 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> On 11/16/2018 02:24 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
>> `info` and `man` solve two different problems, regardless of one's
>> opinion of the interface to the former (which can be learned, it's no
>> more arcane than `vi`).
> 
> I feel like the man vs info war (IMHO it's a war) on Linux has gone too
> far.  Far enough that there are some tools that have between woefully
> inadequate man pages to missing man pages in favor of info documentation.

Agreed. That's why I supply both, with much the same content.

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