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Great fun. One minor nitpick - the story of "Apache Server" being originally derived from "A Patchy Server" is a long-standing myth; the name was originally intended to be a tribute to the Apache Native American peoples. The Wikipedia article on Apache ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server ) includes a link to an interview with Brian Behlendorf ( http://www.linux-mag.com/id/472/ ) where he explains how th…
parrot (common virtual machine for dynamic languages) named after an April Fool's hoax that came true: http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/01/parrot.htm What a coincident. In 2015, Perl 6 (Parrot VM) and Python 3 have difficulties to transfer their community over from the former major releases Perl 5 and Python 2. Offtopic: We can learn from it. Like fixing a language early or never/only in small steps. Other examples: X…
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Perhaps you would find info pages more useful. For example, 'info grep'.
I find that the Man pages on BSD-derived systems are generally quite exceptional, where as GNU-based systems seem to be less so. `info` seems to be their attempt at making a better `man`, but it's pretty hit-or-miss if a Linux-based project thats not from the FSF supports infopages over manpages.
But the one thing I hate about info is that they often change the "see also" near the end of a man page from a list of similar or related commands that you might want to also read, to an invitation to use the info chapter for that command. Aarrrggghhh!
man less
...
SEE ALSO
lesskey(1)
man ls
...
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for ls is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and ls programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'ls invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
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Searches for "Unix less" or "Linux less" are spot on. Even "less command line" will get you there easily. It's all about context. And of course there are always the man pages, which is usually the best place to start.
I personally find the man pages very dense and poorly organized. `man grep` for example is my own personal nightmare. I think the man pages should introduce a policy of simple usage examples instead of throwing 99% of information you don't care about at you at once. Something like http://bropages.org/
Even then, man pages nowadays are massive compared to what they were intended to be, complexity is the bane of all software.
Interesting perspective. I use it almost daily.
The syscall as well as the provided utility of same name.
Great fun. One minor nitpick - the story of "Apache Server" being originally derived from "A Patchy Server" is a long-standing myth; the name was originally intended to be a tribute to the Apache Native American peoples. The Wikipedia article on Apache ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server ) includes a link to an interview with Brian Behlendorf ( http://www.linux-mag.com/id/472/ ) where he explains how th…
> The Apache group was formed around a number of people who provided patch files that had been written for NCSA httpd 1.3. The result after combining them was A PAtCHy server.
(April 1997)
The new story is not consistent with what their website was saying not very long ago.
Great fun. One minor nitpick - the story of "Apache Server" being originally derived from "A Patchy Server" is a long-standing myth; the name was originally intended to be a tribute to the Apache Native American peoples. The Wikipedia article on Apache ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server ) includes a link to an interview with Brian Behlendorf ( http://www.linux-mag.com/id/472/ ) where he explains how th…
Common stuff between Linux and wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside.
parrot (common virtual machine for dynamic languages) named after an April Fool's hoax that came true: http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/01/parrot.htm What a coincident. In 2015, Perl 6 (Parrot VM) and Python 3 have difficulties to transfer their community over from the former major releases Perl 5 and Python 2. Offtopic: We can learn from it. Like fixing a language early or never/only in small steps. Other examples: X…
I don't think any of the Perl-6 developers actually advocates switching from Perl-5. (But please correct me if I'm wrong.) The situation is quite different from Python 3, which is the newest incarnation of the Python language.
The free software movement really needs to step up its name-game. No normal people want to use a program called The GIMP .
The iPad was mocked for sounding like a feminine hygeine product, yet it seems to have done alright for itself.