Just because you can do something…

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ls /usr/share/man/man?/* will show you all the man pages on your system. I used to pick ones at random.

Originally there were a number of manuals. Manual 1 had user commands. Manual 2 had system calls. Etc. You can type man NUMBER intro to read about that manual. You can also use man -k or appropos but I’ve also just used grep. These days they’re compressed so zgrep.

The mouse pointer background is kinda a dick move. Good article. but the background is annoying for tired old eyes - which I assume are a target demographic for that article.

Good answers. I like these. I like the more than one command in a file, that will work. And yes, should have read the source!

Well, nix would be an entire operating system. This is just for a build system to specify the versions of the tools to use.

I use vcsh to manage my home directory - including but not limited to dot files. Written a number of posts on it over the years: https://phrye.com/tags/vcsh/

Projects like that make me want to create a uucp network and so I can email a bang path address to get my patch.

I suppose I should be clearer on the features I want. I’d want to be able to store my cache in memcached or redis and I want the cached data to expire. So for one call, I might want to keep it for five minutes, but another one can stick around for 24 hours.

The memorize package falls down there.