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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by cbhl on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:35PM (#7121433)
I suspect it's supposed to be a pun on "man". The only other tool in this space that comes to mind is GNU's "info"...

What name would you have given the tool?

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by dictum on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:43PM (#7121472)
"boy" is an alternative, though I'm sure it would do very little to placate the misogyny complaints.
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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by Crake on Sunday January 26, 2014 @05:49AM (#7124708)
Nothing will placate the misogyny complaints, which is why they are best ignored.
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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by liquidzoot on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:37PM (#7121443)
Literally anything else.
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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by fennecfoxen on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:40PM (#7121460)
Are you man enough to use `girl` pages?
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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by protomyth on Saturday January 25, 2014 @10:58PM (#7123807)
So, these 'girl pages' only have examples and not the technical explanation of the command? Yeah, I'm thinking you might want to keep looking.
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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by JonnieCache on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:45PM (#7121485)
That would be ok. ladypages just sounds like an unsavoury euphemism.
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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by wonderzombie on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:02PM (#7121845)
Call them syspages (modified from suggestion from upthread).
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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by avalaunch on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:40PM (#7121457)
How about Xpages? X for example but also to provide a nice counter to manpages?
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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by shaneqful on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:25PM (#7121676)
There is already a software product owned by IBM called Xpages probably wouldn't be allowed due to copyright
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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by aiiane on Saturday January 25, 2014 @08:02PM (#7123304)
tinpages. That way the tools do what they say on the tin.
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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by etjossem on Saturday January 25, 2014 @08:32PM (#7123394)
I really like this. I'm going to go ahead and add it to my ~/.bashrc, because I feel weird about typing bro a lot:

alias tin='bro'

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by misnome on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:31PM (#7121973)
xmp?
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