Learn The Basics - Man Pages Versus Info Pages

There are several ways to get help information at the Linux command line, which sometimes confuses people. For example, why does Linux have both 'man' pages and 'info' pages? What about '--help' and the 'help' command?

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[pixl_xip]

The tldr command is probably my favourite

[BWGPEI]

Helpful as usual. But you keep taking me back to my Unix days, when I lived out of the MAN pages and had a lot of them printed for easy reference. I'm much happier with GNU Linux, mostly because you and others have helped me shorten the learning curve. Of course being retired gives me more time to learn and that's another advantage

[tailsorange]

Man, that's a very good command for info pages, right there.

[NoLoginIdea]

When you start using Linux, those long Man pages create more despair than help. Tldr saved my sanity.

[Dennis-Earl-Smiley]

Didnt know about tldr. Also, im creating my own help system too.

[Jeff_Seely]

Thank you Derek. This was a very helpful video!

[helgi]

I'm a simple man. I see a new DT video, I give it a like.

[kpcraftster]

I'm not even sure that this qualifies as basics 😁 It was never clear to me what the conventions and rules were supposed to be distinguishing the three. Good video, thanks 👍

[pauldacus]

2:08 "Let's do a man on man.." youtube demonitization imminent...

[sendgl]

Need an explanation about the knickers song. What is that all about?

[CaribouDataScience]

Hey, DT how about video on how to in create man and info.

[MsDuketown]

I like the perl way from VOID, aswell as adding some more manpages sources.

But a slim OS requires more docs than LoC's of the CODE itself😂

[pauldufresne]

On Fedora, info is a unknown command. In fact man info shows it as an openssl command.

[metalfiregametime]

When it comes to internet history in the early 1970's the internet was being used. Mostly by universities and large corporations.

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[topherfungus]

....just read the Arch wiki, because Arch doesn't even come with man pages.

[rufine]

People spending huge amounts of time writing man pages for their peaces of software trying to cover all of the functionality their software have in one single document
DT: don't read those novels, use tldr instead!

But actually I really agree, I want to see a new standard in the unix-like operating systems world where man pages are used to explain everything related to the programs, while tldr shows the most common use cases of those programs, so if you just want to use a certain program read tldr but if you want master it and know everything the program allows you to do with details then read the man, I hope so.

[brechtbanneel]

What is the most gender neutral manpage reader?

[sinrdjp]

I don't like neovim, I like vim not neovim how to Man page vim not noevim??

[poms]

Woman is actually better, because why would i leave my home emacs😅