• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    You get to learn the notation conventions with <> and [] fairly early on. Maybe a very new user would make that mistake. If he doesn’t get it fairly quick, maybe computers aren’t for him.

    • Storm@slrpnk.net
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      2 hours ago

      Nah m8, I’m generally on board with asking people to read the manual, but these unexplained conventions are nonsense. Pages really should be explicit about notation being added to commands that aren’t actually a part of them

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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        4 minutes ago

        They’re explained right at the beginning of the manpage.

        The man manpage. I’m sure it was the first one you read? Because you wanted to know how man worked?

    • Noxy@pawb.social
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      4 hours ago

      BS. I’ve been using linux for over 20 years and I still don’t know what those mean. I can only guess from context. It’s a stupid convention to just use symbols like that and never explain it.