Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-31 Thread Curt
On 2021-05-31, Dan Ritter wrote: >> > >> > '\?T' for text only, no ANSI sequences >> > >> > curl cht.sh/cp\?T >> > >> > curl cheat.sh/:help >> >> Thank you. That addresses the immediate *SYMPTOM*. >> >> I'll repeat my statement from my original post: >> > I'll have to reconfigure something

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/30/2021 03:02 PM, Curt wrote: > > On 2021-05-29, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > I'll have to reconfigure something on my system. Executing 'curl > > > cheat.sh/cp' resulted in light grey text on white background ;/ > > > > > > > '\?T' for text only, no ANSI se

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-31 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/30/2021 03:02 PM, Curt wrote: On 2021-05-29, Richard Owlett wrote: I'll have to reconfigure something on my system. Executing 'curl cheat.sh/cp' resulted in light grey text on white background ;/ '\?T' for text only, no ANSI sequences curl cht.sh/cp\?T curl cheat.sh/:help Than

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-30 Thread Curt
On 2021-05-29, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'll have to reconfigure something on my system. Executing 'curl > cheat.sh/cp' resulted in light grey text on white background ;/ > '\?T' for text only, no ANSI sequences curl cht.sh/cp\?T curl cheat.sh/:help

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/29/2021 03:20 PM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2021, at 21:03, Richard Owlett wrote: The man page is, putting *mildly*, overwhelming. Is there a recommended introduction to curl. curl is a big subject. While it's very useful to people who write scripts etc, on many platforms, th

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 29 May 15:04 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/29/2021 12:55 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > This may not be exactly what you're thinking of, but I saw this > > referenced on Reddit recently: > > > > curl cheat.sh/ > > > > I just did it for 'curl cheat.sh/cp' which gives some exampl

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 29 May 2021, at 21:03, Richard Owlett wrote: > The man page is, putting *mildly*, overwhelming. Is there a recommended > introduction to curl. curl is a big subject. While it's very useful to people who write scripts etc, on many platforms, the whole manual is aimed at programmers using

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/29/2021 12:55 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: This may not be exactly what you're thinking of, but I saw this referenced on Reddit recently: curl cheat.sh/ I just did it for 'curl cheat.sh/cp' which gives some examples including from tldr. - Nate I'll have to reconfigure something on

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/29/2021 11:47 AM, Marco Möller wrote: On 29.05.21 15:41, Richard Owlett wrote: A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems with adding examples to all man pages. Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name. Unfortunately I didn't bookmark it

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/29/2021 10:57 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 08:41:02AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems with adding examples to all man pages. Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name. Unfortun

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
This may not be exactly what you're thinking of, but I saw this referenced on Reddit recently: curl cheat.sh/ I just did it for 'curl cheat.sh/cp' which gives some examples including from tldr. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pes

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-29 Thread Marco Möller
On 29.05.21 15:41, Richard Owlett wrote: A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems with adding examples to all man pages. Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name. Unfortunately I didn't bookmark it and my attempts to do a web search failed.

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 08:41:02AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems with > adding examples to all man pages. > > Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name. > Unfortunately I didn't bookmark it and my attempts

examples for man pages

2021-05-29 Thread Richard Owlett
A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems with adding examples to all man pages. Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name. Unfortunately I didn't bookmark it and my attempts to do a web search failed. Does anyone recall the URL? TIA