man is self-paging and searchable. It uses some old-school emacs bindings like Ctrl + V from before PgDn was a standard key. So I’m not claiming it’s intuitive.
If cmd --help spews a bunch of info to the screen, you basically have to handle it with grep or less or go modern.
man
is self-paging and searchable. It uses some old-school emacs bindings like Ctrl + V from before PgDn was a standard key. So I’m not claiming it’s intuitive.If
cmd --help
spews a bunch of info to the screen, you basically have to handle it withgrep
orless
or go modern.