More Man Page Goodness
As I’m sitting in the San Jose Airport, I’m reading the sfdisk man page to get a better handle on the command. I want to script setting up partitions, rather than the interactive fdisk. As I’m reading along, I got a chuckle out of the -f or –force switch:
-f or --force
Do what I say, even if it is stupid.
I don’t know why I found that funny, but I thought to myself that more man pages need to be written in this fashion. It sure does brighten up the whole system-administration thing.
Andreas Wenning:
April 18th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
That man-page has some goodies in it. Look at this:
-I file
After destroying your filesystems with an unfortunate sfdisk command, you would have been able to restore the old situation if only you had preserved it using the -O flag.
Dennis K.:
April 19th, 2008 at 12:25 am
apt-get install funny-manpages asr-manpages
jacques:
April 19th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
…and less pages should be like the mount man page. If there is a god of obscure man pages, he was probably the author of that particular one. I can’t believe people find it useful to write pages in something so far remote from good English.. For one thing, there needs to be more examples in man pages,.
anonymous:
April 20th, 2008 at 4:32 am
I do not find that even remotely funny.
If something, Linux distributions should really start to learn from documentation in BSDs.
Man-pages in Linux are terrible even in the case of something like libc. But oh yes, Ubuntu does not even install man-pages by default, so why bother.
Click and run. No need to read anymore. Welcome black box. Sad future for otherwise decent system.
Colin:
April 21st, 2008 at 3:47 am
One of the funniest manpages I’ve ever read is wipe(1)
It starts normally, but starts getting really paranoid quite soon
http://www.linuxcertif.com/man/1/wipe/
Aaron:
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:48 am
@anonymous- Different styles of humor apparently. However, Ubuntu DOES install man pages by default. What they don’t install is the developer man pages. So, where’s the black box?
AmyRose:
May 1st, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Wow, that’s funny. However, I don’t see it in the fdisk manpage on my Hardy system. Is it on another one?
AmyRose:
May 1st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Oh, never mind… you said sfdisk, not fdisk.
By the way, have you ever seen the “I apologize for being so annoying” funny error that sometimes happens when you’re installing kernels on Debian and Ubuntu systems?
Abuddy:
July 21st, 2008 at 5:18 am
yes.
there needs to be more examples in man pages.
I think.
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