Strangely enough, I <i>did</i> learn Unix by reading the man pages.<p>Way back around 1990, I came across a low-cost Version 7 clone of Unix called 'Coherent'. Along with several floppies containing the software came a large 400-500 page book that was mostly a reprint of the Coherent man-pages.<p><a href="https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/mark-williams-coherent-operating" rel="nofollow">https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/mark-williams-...</a><p>Coming from MSDOS, I had to learn Unix from the ground up.* That 'manual' was a godsend in telling me what CLI commands existed and what they did.<p>* I especially discovered very rapidly why you should run your computer as a 'normal user' rather than as 'root' by running the simple command 'rm -fr .*' while in the /tmp directory while doing some 'tidying up'