Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Three Manpage Alternatives - bropages, cheat and tldr" video.

  1. 12:54 lolcat: https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
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  2. I worry that several of those “find” examples include complex piping and substitution that will look like black magic to those who are not au fait with shell syntax. Combine that with cavalier use of dangerous commands like “rm”, and I sense an accident or two just waiting to happen. Also, no love for GNU info? ;)
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  3. 8:03 Just a note that “ls -A” is more useful than “ls -a”. This is because the latter includes the useless “.” and “..” entries in every directory.
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  4. 8:23 Typo! “--user=username” instead of “-user username”.
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  5. But on most Linux distros everything is part of a package. The package contains version dependency information and internal code and data, which can include the documentation. And it can have multiple related binaries, if it makes sense to put them together. That way everything gets properly updated at once when a new package version comes out.
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  6. 11:13 Same with tldr.
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  7. 6:10 I see no examples using the -print0 option, together with piping into “xargs -0”. This can be useful with dangerous commands like “rm” (of which I see several instances in the examples), just in case a filename has something strange like a newline in it.
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