This phrasing is in line with many other man page descriptions I have read and I find it to be the best solution to the problem of program names being hard to fit into grammar (to capitalize or…
scroll(1)
– pager
I think a very light pager would be useful in addition to a (necessarily) slightly heavier editor. We could have two editors - pg(1) (operating in cooked mode using stdio.h) and scroll(1)…
"Null byte" makes sense but "nul byte" makes sense faster and indicates specifically the ASCII zero value versus an arbitrarily-sized ("byte" is sadly not always specific enough) value.
This infinitive present tense for descriptions feels off and I think this is a good example of why. "Compare integers" - who, what, when, where, why, how? It's easy to reference but more…
Could this functionality be attained using a combination of existing or hypothetical utilities and shell features? We should consider whether this utility should be necessary for its use…