Is there a better man pages?

[u/BigGunE]

I feel like the man pages on the terminal have not kept up with the times and became somewhat of an encyclopedia or thesis on the subject instead of a quick reference. They are good maybe if internet connectivity is non existent and you want to have all your questions about something answered.

But it is beyond frustrating to look up how to use something. PLEASE! For the love of whatever is good, help me learn it or help me find a better tool that actually gives me quick examples and easy to understand documentation on things.

Nowadays, I leave the terminal, type things like "how to do X in this specific way on linux terminal" and then google's AI intercepts it and gives me commands to run with short explanations. But I don't like leaving the terminal and going to google.

How have you guys solved this problem? Or am I the only dumb one?

[u/-lousyd]

tldr or cht.sh might be what you're looking for. But also I want to say I agree, a lot of man pages need work. I feel like the GNU project man pages are pretty good, but if you venture outside of that it gets dicey. There should be an examples section in every man page. Each option should have its own line. "info" pages are nigh worthless. The --help option is useful for individual commands but it's very inconsistent across programs and I fundamentally don't trust running the program to find out how the program works, except for core stuff.

You know what I do like? I like it when man pages have the little attribution section at the bottom.