Bro Pages (instead of "man" pages) is a similar resource I find myself using surprisingly often http://bropages.org/browse
If you want a fast way to read the EXAMPLES section only for a command, here is a shell function which creates an ‘eg’ command which only displays the “EXAMPLES” section of manual pages:
eg(){
MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 man "$@" 2>/dev/null \
| sed --quiet --expression='/^E\(\x08.\)X\(\x08.\)\?A\(\x08.\)\?M\(\x08.\)\?P\(\x08.\)\?L\(\x08.\)\?E/{:a;p;n;/^[^ ]/q;ba}' \
| ${MANPAGER:-${PAGER:-pager -s}}
}
$ eg tar
EXAMPLES
Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.
tar -cf archive.tar foo bar
List all files in archive.tar verbosely.
tar -tvf archive.tar
Extract all files from archive.tar.
tar -xf archive.tar
$Could anyone contribute a version for OSX?
#!/bin/sh
eg () {
man $1 | grep '^E.EX.XA' -A 1000 | grep '^[A-Z]' -m 2 -B 1000 -A 0 | sed '$d' | $PAGER
}
eg $1It also has a terminal client called "fu": https://github.com/samirahmed/fu
$ bro curl
The curl command isn't in our database.