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This tends to be more of an issue with GNU programs that have info pages. You are not really supposed to use the man pages in that case. The info pages for GNU tar have lots of examples scattered throughout:

* http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/

BSD systems, for example, have much better man pages that have an actual "EXAMPLES" section near the bottom.

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The thing is - I don't want to go to some website or pour through pages and pages of documentation when I want to do one specific thing. I want to do something and move on with my life. My job isn't learning every command line switch under the job.

It's just text - so all the text formatting/search/manipulation commands are available to you. Manpages are really easy to use and navigate, given you use them how they're meant to be used.

man man | grep -A 10 EXAMPLES

man tar | awk -F , '/-v,/ {print $2}'

Or I type ‘tldr’ and don’t waste my time? I swear to god, engineers are so focused on efficiency and yet are so eager to waste so much time and effort on repeating crap like this unnecessarily. Just think about the context switches alone necessary to type all that.

It was easy for me, no context switching. I assume basic use of grep and awk shouldn't be too much of a stretch for most Linux savvy engineers.

I'm happy TLDR fits your needs. I was just demonstrating how I use manpages effectively in hopes it might assist you.

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