Nathaniel Mott13h ago

fwupdmgr: very good software, glad it exists

fwupdmgr: also a very good example of how not to write man pages

Show threadNathaniel Mott

"read the --help output"

fwupdmgr --help | wc -l
104

(does wc skip empty lines? I don't think so but that's not the primary concern here)

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Show threadRon Bowes11h ago
@nmott wc does not skip empty lines (it does skip lines printed to stderr, but you'd see those
Show threadNathaniel Mott10h ago
@iagox86 that's what I thought. decided to trim (first with fwupdmgr --help | grep -c '^ ' and then by running wc -l on a text file where I deleted the blank lines because my regex is not strong) and it's still 96 lines. some of those are to break different options into groups, though, tbf