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What is the differences between "man" and "info" command (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by folak@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi,

I saw there https://askubuntu.com/questions/9325/what-is-the-difference-between-man-and-info-documentation that info is "better" than man because is outdated. Still right in 2023 ?

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[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I’m a fan of cheat.sh

For instance to get info on curl you can:

curl cheat.sh/curl

[–] folkrav@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I since switched to tldr (for the offline/caching functionality, I think?), but for the longest time I just used a wrapper function that did exactly this in my shell configuration. Something a bit like this:

function cheatsh() { 
    curl cheat.sh/"\$1" 
}