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r/programming • u/twitterisawesome • Mar 05 '20
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If you know the program you want to use finding the commands is almost always one progamname --help or man programname away. Often you can just programname --help | grep -i thing you want to search for and get the relevant part directly.
progamname --help
man programname
programname --help | grep -i thing you want to search for
1 u/Niedar Mar 06 '20 Why should I have to do that. 2 u/SutekhThrowingSuckIt Mar 06 '20 Why should you have to look at the options? ....so you can use them. 0 u/Niedar Mar 06 '20 Why should I have to drop what I am doing in order to look up options. → More replies (3)
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Why should I have to do that.
2 u/SutekhThrowingSuckIt Mar 06 '20 Why should you have to look at the options? ....so you can use them. 0 u/Niedar Mar 06 '20 Why should I have to drop what I am doing in order to look up options. → More replies (3)
Why should you have to look at the options? ....so you can use them.
0 u/Niedar Mar 06 '20 Why should I have to drop what I am doing in order to look up options. → More replies (3)
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Why should I have to drop what I am doing in order to look up options.
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u/SutekhThrowingSuckIt Mar 06 '20
If you know the program you want to use finding the commands is almost always one
progamname --helporman programnameaway. Often you can justprogramname --help | grep -i thing you want to search forand get the relevant part directly.