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LinXitoW on Jan 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

How is man pages better? Before i knew what it stood for, i thought it was sexist.

donotsurveil on Jan 26, 2014 [–]

Man is a pager interface to system documentation, the content is written y knowledgeable people and is actual documentation.

Bro is a user provided database of one liner command which you have no idea if they will do what they claim when they do work.

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