When I'm writing new manpages, I like to draw inspiration from the
documentation of similar programs. The problem is that many manpages
have different ways of saying the same thing, probably due to their
authors and time period they were written in.
So, I'd like to ask what your preferred choice is of the following
common idioms I keep finding:
1. Manpage
Is it:
man page
man-page
manpage
reference
manual
UNIX™ Programmers Manual
...on second thought, maybe not
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)
Bonus Round:
Print to ...
Write to ...
Print on ...
readlink(1)
3. Program arguments
Is it:
Argument
echo(1)
Operand
printf(1), also echo(1)?
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Stephen Gregoratto
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