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		Raineer on April 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Learn Unix Tools I never knew about tldr. That tip alone is phenomenal. I'm embarrassed to say I've been doing this 20 years and never seen it. Trying to pull out several common usage examples from man pages has always been my difficulty.

alex_smart on April 26, 2021 [–]

Try this:

man man | awk '/^[A-Z]+/ { begin = 0 } /^EXAMPLES|^NAME/ { begin = 1 } (begin == 1) { print }'

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