Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

right, the causal chain would be that the author already used the dict command and had at some point read the man page, which begins

    DICT(1)                                                                DICT(1)

    NAME
           dict - DICT Protocol Client

    SYNOPSIS
           (...)

    DESCRIPTION
           dict  is  a  client  for  the  Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT), (...)
but, yeah, not everybody has that background

which is fine! nobody is born knowing all the unix commands




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: