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Every manpage should have an EXAMPLES that shows how to do the very basic, most obvious thing with the command line tool or library function.

#rant
#rant
in reply to Lars Wirzenius

polyphonic
polyphonic
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This, plus sane defaults. The world would be a better place.

Extract a tarball? What the hell is zvxf doing?

It should be
tar file.tar
To extract it to a directory named ./file

It should be
tar <file or directory>
To create a tarball.

This is just one maddening example
in reply to Lars Wirzenius

John Goerzen
John Goerzen
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Also, context. Why does the thing exist and how does it work with other tools. I always write manpages, these days usually in markdown and use #pandoc to convert them. Example: https://github.com/jgoerzen/xbnet/blob/master/doc/xbnet.1.md
#Pandoc

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