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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by imdsm on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:47PM (#7121505)
I don't like it to be honest. It seems a bit kiddish really. Great idea though, but I would have preferred something else. Maybe `eg`?

eg ls, eg cat, eg less etc.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by stinos on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:59PM (#7121560)
This is actually a very, very good idea. Everybody knows it, it means one thing and one thing only, and that thing also describes what it does, it probably isn't taken, and fits nicely with all other standard descriptive commands like ls/man/... Nice one.
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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by forgottenpass on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:05PM (#7121859)
it means one thing and one thing only, and that thing also describes what it does, it probably isn't taken

http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezy&arch=any&mode...

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by pacaro on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:18PM (#7121915)
Name collisions aren't the worst things in the world, you can usually alias around them. ack vs ack-grep springs to mind
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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by hifigi on Saturday January 25, 2014 @03:06PM (#7122141)
or 'pal' as in exampal (sic)
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