An enormous page full of switches and options, yet if you're a beginner it's basically useless. You're just looking for a simple example of how to search for a file. find . -i -name <regex> is NOT mentioned anywhere, you have to figure it out yourself. And if you mess it up, your terminal gets flooded.
An enormous page full of switches and options, yet if you're a beginner it's basically useless. You're just looking for a simple example of how to search for a file. find . -i -name <regex> is NOT mentioned anywhere, you have to figure it out yourself. And if you mess it up, your terminal gets flooded.
Contrast with grep(1) https://linux.die.net/man/1/grep which is short, simple, and easily searchable with keywords
Manpages are very useful, having offline documentation is great. But it is more of a specification reference than a manual.