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Comment by teamhappy

8 years ago

https://tldr.ostera.io/tar

https://man.openbsd.org/tar#EXAMPLES

What they're covering is just the examples section of a traditional man page. What makes you think people wouldn't merge these?

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np_tedious  8 years ago

It's a fundamentally different goal / structure.

`man` documents every last flag, and I generally use it for a command I know decently but need to dig into particulars. It goes to a scrollable page like `less` which is important bc it's total size spans several pages.

`tldr` is shows the 3-4 most common use cases for a command, and puts it right to stdout more like `cat` so you can refer to it as you type along. I'd generally use this for a command I do not know so well.