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    Man pages bad (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 6 months ago by 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Like all the examples on that page under the header "examples"?

    Skill issue tbh.

    [–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    When you use the man pages from the terminal it's not so easy to skip to them

    [–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

    I think it's f to go forward one page, b for back. Down arrow goes down a line etc.

    [–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

    Yeah it is. Just press pgdown and pgup or home and end for faster scrolling.

    [–] simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    Sounds like you need to spend some time in man more

    man find
/thing you want to find

    Should be enough to skip right to what you want.

    [–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Or I just use this instead

    http://bropages.org/examples/77

    [–] simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Seems like a lot of extra faffing about if you're already in a terminal with your hands on the keyboard to avoid learning how to use a tool explicitly built for that use case.

    But sure. You do you boo.

    [–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

    It's also a terminal application, but that one in particular is deprecated

    This one isn't

    https://tldr.inbrowser.app/pages/common/find

    tldr is in my distro's repos so it's easy enough to install