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grymoire1
on Oct 21, 2014
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Hints for writing Unix tools
I hate it when a program has a huge --help output, and the man page is nearly empty, and says "see the --help option for more details." Things like examples, see also, etc. are very valuable to someone trying to figure out how to use a program....
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