Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by gruseom on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:21PM (#7121658)

A play on words is ok, as long as it's not a running joke that keeps coming up. That's distracting.

The key to the Unix joke name genre is that the jokes are encoded laconically into the name and only the name (e.g. "less") and then have the good taste to immediately expire. They don't get old because they don't overstay their welcome.

Edit: I reworded this to be less judgmental.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by philh on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:45PM (#7121770)

> It also clumsily fails to understand the genre it's trying to reproduce, the Unix joke name. Those jokes are encoded laconically into the name and only the name (e.g. "less") and then have the good taste to immediately expire. They don't get old because they don't overstay their welcome.

I'm confused. Is the bro thing showing up in this command apart from in the name?

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by gruseom on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:49PM (#7121783)

I thought it did from reading the blog post. Is that wrong? If so, I'll delete my comment.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by philh on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:01PM (#7121841)

Oh, I didn't see that there's 'bro thanks' and 'bro ...no' for voting. I wouldn't call that too much, but YMMV. I can't see anything else.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by gruseom on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:07PM (#7121865)

You have a good point. I rewrote my comment to make fewer assumptions.

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