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Re:I Didn’t Learn Unix by Reading All the Manpages by markus_zhang on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @02:54PM (#36062496)
Yeah man! Scenarios! Those documentations rarely bother with scenarios, which is all newbies need!
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Re:I Didn’t Learn Unix by Reading All the Manpages by fsckboy on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @10:55PM (#36066593)
within a magpage that section is called EXAMPLES

there are not enough of them now, they used to be more prevalent

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Re:I Didn’t Learn Unix by Reading All the Manpages by markus_zhang on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @11:06PM (#36066663)
Yeah some have examples but many don't. I think maybr that's not the purpose of manpages though, more suitable for a cookbook.
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