Thursday, May 30, 2019

Re: Prefered manpage idioms?

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 07:29:55PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> i think any of man page, manual page, or manual is fine.
>
> > 2. Standard output
> >
> > Is it:
> > Print to standard output/error
> > tee(1)
> > Print to the standard output/error
> > cat(1), echo(1)
> > Print to stdout/stderr
> > bzcat(1)
> >
>
> these are all fine, i think.

IMO, these are highly contextual.

"End user commands" will tend to say standard output or error.

stdout and stderr *are* programmer's idioms, so I would be surprised
to see them in less technical commands.

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