Assuming 'man' is short for 'manual', this is exactly where man-pages go wrong.
Especially as a beginner; reading man-pages is a waste of time. It's so dense and obtuse that reading man-pages almost requires reading a man-page on reading man-pages.
For example try to figure out how to extract a zip using tar by using the man-pages.
Why? Manuals come in different levels, not all of them are tutorials/guides, some of them are references. We still call them manuals.
> For example try to figure out how to extract a zip using tar by using the man-pages.
I'm not sure if you're purposefully mixing tars/zips here, I'm gonna assume you mean a "tar-file" instead of "zip" as obviously tar can't unzip a zip file.
Not sure why you're having troubles finding the instructions compared to the thousands of people who managed to find it. Just to refresh my memory (although I know the commands by heart by now), I gave it a try.
1. `man tar`
3. Read through the synopsis, realize I need to specify the archive file with `-f`.
2. Synopsis didn't mention extract, so I search for `extract` as I know I want to extract a file
3. Now I have `tar xf $archive.tar` and I run that. Notice I would like to have some output.
4. Go back to manpages, search for "output" and find the "-v" flag
5. Final command I'm happy with is `tar xfv $archive.tar`
Is that really so difficult? Has the internet ruined peoples ability to search for information themselves and playing around?
tar xf file.zip
Works perfectly
Btw, assuming you meant a gzipped tar, it's tar xvfz (mnemonic: XaVier FugaZi), I can remember from memory solely because of good old RTFM and no hand-holding.
Your mileage might vary, but to put it very frankly (and obtusely): if you can't be bothered to learn why should anyone help you, for free?
But as for find ... are you serious? I said simple example.
There are lots of examples, yes, but all do quite complicated stuff (and I had to scroll lots of text to get there). I mean, I can use them, sure, I studied IT. But at that moment, I just wanted to look for one file on all my hd. Not find files with readpermission flag in combination with deleting etc.
Imagine a newb. Make things simple. That means you start with the easy things.
Like in the case of find, with an example, that looks on a given path for that string.
And if I know that, I can work myself up, if I want to.
But don't bombard people with information they do not need or want. And if people manage
Have an online example which illustrates all possible file finding examples you could ever need: https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find...
