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examples are good

Posted by: Administrator on February 10, 2004 08:59 PM
Why are examples of usage so rare in man pages? Of the man pages I use, fewer than half of them have examples. On my system, of sed and gawk, two of the oldest utilities in Unix, only one (gawk) has examples in its man page. The sed examples are buried in its info page tree.

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