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Best alias confirmed
proceeds to add it to .bashrc and .zshrc
You guys know that there's an actual rtfm app that condenses the output of man to human-readable stuff right? Right??
Wait, what?
Of course. . ...I was wrong and it is tldr not rtfm.
https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
But surely you heard about TheFuck?
https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
There's actually an rtfm package in Arch's aur, but it just opens the archwiki for you which just adds that tiny bit of... of That Arch Way Of Doing Things I guess.
I HAVE heard about thefuck!
@theshatterstone54 @reallyzen it's new to me. I'm keen to have this!
Link to GitHub?
My bad: it's tldr not rtfm
Me too I have ~~stupid~~ disputable aliases...
https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
Oh yeah I know about
tldr
. It's pretty great. I actually use a Rust version of it called teeldeer. I also have a whole lot of "disputable" aliases, for examplertfm
fortldr
andrtfmp
(read the fucking man page) forman
. I also usefucking
for sudo. There's nothing better than runningpacman -Syu
, realizing the mistake and then typing infucking pacman -Syu
BRB, got a dotfile to edit real quick