&gt; On a side note, what&#x27;s up with not reading manuals these days?<p>The difficulty of finding manuals, and when you do, they&#x27;re badly written in such a way that they assume all sorts of contextual knowledge based around the sorts of problems the author of the software was trying to solve in 1986 or whatever year. Manual writing is at least 1000x more difficult than bash scripting, because you have no way of knowing up front how the target &quot;machine&quot; is going to interpret your &quot;script&quot;.<p>And of course that&#x27;s all assuming a manual even exists at all.