On Tue, 2022-01-25 at 16:24 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Jan 25, 2022, at 12:03, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
<rant> Perhaps not impossible, but certainly more difficult. I attribute this to the poor quality of much documentation. Gone are the good ol' days of UNIX when everything was in the man pages (as long as you had the patience to read them). Many tools nowadays don't even have a proper man page, if they have any at all (I'm looking at you, KDE), so you have to rely on a web browser even to read what help there is. </rant>
I do suggest you try the “nmcli” man page, and the “nmcli-examples” man page for examples.
I feel the documentation is quite good and exceeds what might have been there for the old ifcfg files. (which, iirc, were actually documented in a .txt file in /usr/share/doc and *not* a man page)
I know it’s fun to rag on the new (ish) things but NM is actually quite nice.
I was commenting in general terms on Tom's observation about needing Google to understand some things. I'm well aware that some things do have proper man pages, but quite a few don't.
Anyway, this is really off-topic for the thread (hence the <rant></rant> brackets).
poc