The real jackpot is if they're the same as the --help command
replyMost people just discount man pages as unreadable and don’t even try to understand them.
replyCase in point: the jq man page is incredible and everyone I know instead runs off to google or stackoverflow or Claude to answer simple questions
I was never able to properly parse large man pages, I'm so happy that llms can now prepare half a usable command without spending an hour reading a time without a single usage example.
replyWhat I usually do when I have to read large man pages like bash(1) is I read them as PDFs:
replyman -Tpdf bash | zathura -
Replace zathura with any PDF viewer reading from stdin or just save the PDF. Hope that can be useful to someone!
But its also true that many, many man pages have extremely valuable information that no enterprising hacker should overlook, too ..
replyDo we still have those? I think it was common in late '90s, due to GNU trying to get `info` gain moment but nowadays?
replyMostly just the bash builtins have (had) this problem.
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