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[–] rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not all programs have a --help, and --help doesn't always give you clear examples of how to use something. For example, ffmpeg's help gives a dump of all the options, and no examples of how you probably want to put them together.

[–] rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Gotcha I’m still learning Linux, thanks for the clarification.