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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 02:45:32 JST nixCraft 🐧

   How do you fact-check things on your #Linux or #Unix machine? Read documentation and config options:

   man command4
   info command2
   commnand1 —help
   cd /usr/share/doc && ls -l | less

   • Stuhl, Stühler, am Stühlsten (stueja@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 02:47:20 JST Stuhl, Stühler, am Stühlsten

     in reply to

     @nixCraft and `cheat command` if `cheat` is installed 🤗

   • lemgandi (lemgandi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 04:18:57 JST lemgandi

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     @nixCraft Reading man(1) pages is a baseline skill for any reasonable professional working with Linux or Unix. Extra points if you km what the number in () in the previous sentence is.

   • Seth Galitzer (sgsax@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 05:26:16 JST Seth Galitzer

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     @nixCraft I'll do a quick --help to refresh my memory, or man if I need more details. I've never found anything useful in /usr/share/docs (at least for Debian/Ubuntu) Does anything still use info, other than really old gnu stuff?