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On the cURL side; ridiculous manual

I regularly forget the order for the values for --resolve, try searching for that word and figuring it out quickly

I've been relegated to grepping a flippin' manual

A trick I've found useful when searching large man pages for a flag --foo is to search for `␣␣--foo` (note the two leading spaces). In my experience this always hits the line where the flag is defined instead of irrelevant mentions of that flag, and it's faster than paging through the manual by hand.

Ah, good call - I've tried a variation of that with one space and been left disappointed; two works a treat!

Or for something more flexible: ^ *--foo. But unfortunately this kind of pattern will be defeated by -f, --foo indexes.

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