Julia Evans 3/10/2026

Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages

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The article details the author's work on adding and improving example sections in the official man pages for the tcpdump and dig command-line tools. It discusses the goal of providing basic usage examples for beginners, the collaborative review process with maintainers, and the technical approach of using a custom Markdown-to-roff script to avoid learning the roff language directly.

Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages

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