Possibly Off Topic Rant

[Ray Parrish]

Hello,

I'm a fairly new user in Linux, and I've been studying and attempting to 
use the commands available to me at the command line by reading the man 
and info pages. I'm running into lots of problems determining the proper 
syntax for many of the commands due to very sketchy documentation.

I'm winding up trying some commands over and over again, as I attempt to 
discover the apparently secret twists to the syntax required to get a 
command to do it's thing. After many tries I sometimes finally get it 
right, and there is no mention in the docs of the requirement for the 
use of specific syntax options I eventually discover are required to use 
a command.

I consider this a bug in the documentation, and think it would be nice 
if the documentation writers would add a --verbose --verbose switch to 
their writing behaviors when producing man pages.

Later, Ray Parrish

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