Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages
4 days ago
- #tcpdump
- #documentation
- #man-pages
- Examples added to the dig and tcpdump man pages for beginners and infrequent users.
- Goal was to provide basic usage examples to make tools more accessible.
- Collaboration with maintainers improved documentation accuracy and usefulness.
- Learned new tcpdump flag (-v) for live packet capture summary.
- Documentation can be as good as blog posts but more accurate.
- Used a custom Markdown-to-roff script to avoid learning roff.
- Explored the history and current state of roff and man pages.
- Noted a technical and cultural divide in documentation between BSD and Linux.