#1 2017-01-31 14:53:03

dolly

Miss Mixunderstand

From: /lab701

Registered: 2015-10-03

Posts: 490

Simplified man pages

What the title says really.

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=man-pages

tynman

Member

Registered: 2015-10-13

Posts: 93

Re: Simplified man pages

Interesting project.

Head_on_a_Stick

Member

From: London

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 9,093

Website

Re: Simplified man pages

Nice, thanks for the link

I prefer complicated man pages though  8o

And of course, there is such a thing as too simple (warning: link contains bad words) 

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2017-01-31 16:49:10)

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geekosupremo

Member

Registered: 2016-04-27

Posts: 169

Re: Simplified man pages

Oooo! This seems a nice complement to the traditional man pages!

brontosaurusrex

Middle Office

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 2,746

Re: Simplified man pages

Possibly better links

tldr 
https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

bash client 
https://github.com/raylee/tldr

web client
https://tldr.ostera.io

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geekosupremo

Member

Registered: 2016-04-27

Posts: 169

Re: Simplified man pages

@brontosaurusrex - You found the best links! +1

stevep

MX Linux Developer

Registered: 2016-08-08

Posts: 381

Re: Simplified man pages

We were discussing this in the non-public development section of the MX Linux forums.  I packaged the C++ CLI client for our use, and maybe a GUI can use its output in a fancier looking shell.  I made an OBS repository for it that's still in the process of building the packages and setting a repo, so check back if there's nothing yet:  https://software.opensuse.org/download. … ldr-client

It come with its own "not for the simple" manpage, but just running

tldr tldr

will show the tldr version.    There's a command to download or update a version of the database on your own machine, too, otherwise there a lag of a few seconds for it to get a response on line.

Last edited by stevep (2017-02-01 02:15:40)