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Q&A Ergonomic way to search man pages

Not a real answer, but these days there are some nice LLM models and they're good at summarizing text. If you have the CLI scripts to interact with them, you can submit the man page as the "system ...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar matthewsnyder‭ · 2023-08-21T18:33:18Z (over 1 year ago)
Not a real answer, but these days there are some nice LLM models and they're good at summarizing text. If you have the CLI scripts to interact with them, you can submit the man page as the "system prompt" (in ChatGPT parlance) and ask the question in the "user prompt".

This will be somewhat slow and will cost you money (API credits), but it is technically quite versatile. It is also possible for the LLM to hallucinate incorrect stuff.