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Re: examples for man pages

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On 05/29/2021 03:20 PM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 2021, at 21:03, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
>> The man page is, putting *mildly*, overwhelming. Is there a recommended
>> introduction to curl.
> 
> curl is a big subject.  While it's very useful to people who write scripts etc,
> on many platforms, the whole manual is aimed at programmers using it.
> Inevitably a lot of the information is quite detailed.
> 
> If you're looking to learn more about one subject, getting distracted into
> learning about curl is possibly not a great idea!
> 
> For a quick summary of some basic uses of curl, see
> 
>    https://curl.se/docs/manual.html
> 
> For an longer, but much more educational read, try
> 
>    https://everything.curl.dev/
> 
> which was written by curl's author.
> 

Both suffer from the same "feature" as the man page - abundance of fine 
detail. The second appears to to have a very good index so that if you 
need a particular detail, it should be quickly found.

After browsing both I did:
   https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=what%20is%20linux%20curl

The first hits each gave few examples, but they hit a wide range of 
topics. Thus answering an underlying question, "Why would I want to use 
curl?"

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examples for man pages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-29 15:50 +0200
  Re: examples for man pages "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-05-29 18:00 +0200
    Re: examples for man pages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-29 21:30 +0200
  Re: examples for man pages Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-05-29 19:00 +0200
    Re: examples for man pages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-29 21:40 +0200
  Re: examples for man pages Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-05-29 20:00 +0200
    Re: examples for man pages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-29 22:10 +0200
      Re: examples for man pages "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2021-05-29 22:30 +0200
        Re: examples for man pages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-30 15:50 +0200
      Re: examples for man pages Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-05-30 03:20 +0200
      Re: examples for man pages Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-05-30 22:30 +0200
        Re: examples for man pages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-31 14:40 +0200
          Re: examples for man pages Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-05-31 16:50 +0200
            Re: examples for man pages Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-05-31 18:10 +0200

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