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minus-squarePaX [comrade/them, they/them]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoTrue, but a man page is a different thing from a tool’s built-in usage information.
minus-squarePaX [comrade/them, they/them]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoYeahh, you have a good point lol. Bash and the GNU ecosystem have developed their own sprawling problems.
minus-squareOliver LoweOPlinkfedilink2•2 years agoDefinitely depends, yeah. bash is a huge piece of software that - for me - feels a bit out of place in other systems closer to original unix. Interesting ones are rc and even plain old /bin/sh provided by something like busybox.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•2 years ago Since when do Unix tools output 3,000 word long usage info? Even GNU tools don’t even come close… [zlatko@dilj ~/Projects/galactic-bloodshed]$ man grep | wc -w 4297 [zlatko@dilj ~/Projects/galactic-bloodshed]$ man man | wc -w 4697 [zlatko@dilj ~/Projects/galactic-bloodshed]$
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True, but a man page is a different thing from a tool’s built-in usage information.
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Yeahh, you have a good point lol. Bash and the GNU ecosystem have developed their own sprawling problems.
Definitely depends, yeah.
bashis a huge piece of software that - for me - feels a bit out of place in other systems closer to original unix. Interesting ones arercand even plain old/bin/shprovided by something like busybox.[zlatko@dilj ~/Projects/galactic-bloodshed]$ man grep | wc -w 4297 [zlatko@dilj ~/Projects/galactic-bloodshed]$ man man | wc -w 4697 [zlatko@dilj ~/Projects/galactic-bloodshed]$