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I've been met with the phrase RTFM often. I recognize its value. However, the manual pages are often hard to understand and written by people who know so much about the topic at hand that they don't even realize how far away they are from a layman trying to use it.

How can I RTFM to use a command well, and how can I recognize if the man is the tool for the job (and what is, then: apropos, built-in help, info or something else?)? How can I "parse" man-pages quickly?

Since this is a part of Linux Basics Compendium, I'd like to stay only on-topic of common GNU/Linux commands, present in the common distributions.

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