CMD-2(1)

💅 CMD(2) — okay bestie, sit down for this one 💅

So. You opened CMD in section 2 of the manual. You're braced for flags, for DESCRIPTION prose, for a whole OPTIONS list that goes on for three screens. And what does the page actually give you?

One line. Literally one line. That's the whole manual page. Not a summary of it — the entire thing. I'm not gatekeeping anything from you, there's just nothing else in there to gatekeep. 😭

🎀 THE ENTIRE PAGE, VERBATIM, NO NOTES 🎀

Like, here it is, in full, exactly as written:

man page 2

That's it. That's the page. The header up top says man page 2, the body says man page 2, and the last line — because there is only one line and it's doing double duty — is also man page 2. Iconic minimalism, honestly. The author woke up and chose brevity and I have to respect it. 👑

✨ WHAT'S NOT IN HERE ✨

Just so we're clear and you don't go hunting for stuff that isn't real, bestie:

• no NAME section spelling out what CMD does
• no SYNOPSIS, no usage line, no invocation to copy-paste
• no DESCRIPTION paragraph
• no options, no flags, no arguments, no defaults, nada
• no environment variables
• no files, no file paths
• no exit statuses, no signals, no error conditions
• no examples
• no warnings, no caveats, no bugs to be aware of
• no SEE ALSO — not even one little cross-reference to a friend 🥲
• no author, no copyright, no license line

lowkey important: I'm not hiding a -h from you or "keeping it snappy." There genuinely is no more content in this page. Anything I added beyond man page 2 would be me making stuff up, and we don't do that here. 🫶

🌈 SO WHAT DO YOU DO WITH IT 🌈

You read it, you go "huh," and you move on with your beautiful life. Maybe you check a different section, maybe you check the source, maybe you ask whoever told you about CMD in the first place. But this page? This page has said its piece. It's giving "I have nothing to add, your honor." 💀

✨ cute little sign-off ✨

Header line: man page 2. Footer line: man page 2 (same line, bestie — it's a one-line page living its truth). No source, no version, no date, because the original doesn't give us any. That's the whole thing, and we love it for exactly what it is. 🦋💖