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Or I type ‘tldr’ and don’t waste my time? I swear to god, engineers are so focused on efficiency and yet are so eager to waste so much time and effort on repeating crap like this unnecessarily. Just think about the context switches alone necessary to type all that.


It was easy for me, no context switching. I assume basic use of grep and awk shouldn't be too much of a stretch for most Linux savvy engineers.

I'm happy TLDR fits your needs. I was just demonstrating how I use manpages effectively in hopes it might assist you.


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