Software developer in the West of Ireland. Can also be found at https://mastodon.ie/@lyda
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ls /usr/share/man/man?/*
will show you all the man pages on your system. I used to pick ones at random.
Originally there were a number of manuals. Manual 1 had user commands. Manual 2 had system calls. Etc. You can type man NUMBER intro
to read about that manual. You can also use man -k
or appropos
but I’ve also just used grep. These days they’re compressed so zgrep.
The mouse pointer background is kinda a dick move. Good article. but the background is annoying for tired old eyes - which I assume are a target demographic for that article.
I use vcsh to manage my home directory - including but not limited to dot files. Written a number of posts on it over the years: https://phrye.com/tags/vcsh/
Projects like that make me want to create a uucp network and so I can email a bang path address to get my patch.
Just because you can do something…