Comment by Aeolun

6 years ago

I really do not enjoy reading man pages though. tldr or —help is much more likely to contain the info I want on the first screen.

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t0astbread  6 years ago

That's why I think both are important: -h/--help for a short description, man pages for more detailed "handbooks". There Ideally there would also be a "compatibility" rendering of man pages bundled for systems like Windows that don't have anything like man.

trasz  6 years ago

That is usually a sign of functionality bloat, not a problem with man pages as such.