you may have a point. -K and -k are perhaps the most helpful arguments for man, and since I hadn't seen anyone else mention it, perhaps we need to make that one of the first things we tell people about. However I learned about it by skimming the man --help output. I didn't read the entire argument list in depth (primarily because I'm too lazy to), but once I noticed that K did a search for a specific string in all pages, I did a man man to find more information on it. Why can't the Average User do this? how hard is it to add --help to a command to see if there are any helpful arguments? and if it's not an obvious first step when in doubt, then why don't we tell people to consider it an obvious first step?
well, first you find yourself a snail. then you give it a coconut, cut in half to provide a percussion instrument for simulating the sounds of a galloping horse. then all you need is a quest.. yes.. a quest to find the holy grail!
What is your name?
I am Arthur, snail of the Britains
What is your Quest?
To seek the Holy Grail
What.. is the average airspeed of a migrating swallow?
isn't that why we have man -k and man -K ? for when you know roughly what you want, but not what it's called. man -K has saved me from crawling through random forums and newsgroups on many an occasion.
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I, at the other end of the spectrum, have a tendency to explode if the pressure gets too low.
you may have a point. -K and -k are perhaps the most helpful arguments for man, and since I hadn't seen anyone else mention it, perhaps we need to make that one of the first things we tell people about.
However I learned about it by skimming the man --help output. I didn't read the entire argument list in depth (primarily because I'm too lazy to), but once I noticed that K did a search for a specific string in all pages, I did a man man to find more information on it. Why can't the Average User do this? how hard is it to add --help to a command to see if there are any helpful arguments? and if it's not an obvious first step when in doubt, then why don't we tell people to consider it an obvious first step?
well, first you find yourself a snail. then you give it a coconut, cut in half to provide a percussion instrument for simulating the sounds of a galloping horse. then all you need is a quest.. yes.. a quest to find the holy grail!
What is your name?
I am Arthur, snail of the Britains
What is your Quest?
To seek the Holy Grail
What.. is the average airspeed of a migrating swallow?
African, or European?
I.. don't know.
isn't that why we have man -k and man -K ? for when you know roughly what you want, but not what it's called. man -K has saved me from crawling through random forums and newsgroups on many an occasion.