I am begging developers of command line tools to simply write an example of the working command after the options.

reading a 1000 lines of documentation with a million -flags and -switches and then guessing how im supposed to use them is not fun. many many non coders want to use your program. Let us copy paste the working command and then edit to our needs

@nix This is the reason why I have https://www.mankier.com/ bookmarked as a search provider. I look up most documentation there, because they *lead* with the examples.

It is so much better because 90% of the time I want to do something super-lame that's probably contained in the first 3 examples.

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