Terms of Use

The basics

By using this site, you agree to the following. If you don’t agree, close the tab. We won’t know either way.

Content is provided as-is

Everything on manpages.wtf is provided for educational purposes only. We do our best to keep commands accurate and up to date, but:

• We are not responsible if you copy-paste a command without reading it first and something breaks. That’s a you problem.
• We are not liable for data loss, misconfigured servers, angry bosses, or existential dread caused by using commands from this site.
• This is not professional advice. If you need guaranteed, certified, enterprise-grade documentation, go read the actual man page. All 3,000 lines of it.

Don’t be reckless

Commands on this site are demonstrated with common, practical use cases. If you run them in production without testing first, that’s on you. We showed you rsync; we didn’t tell you to sync your home directory to /dev/null.

Intellectual property

The content on this site — the writing, the examples, the painstakingly crafted insults — is original work. Don’t wholesale copy it. Linking to it is fine. Quoting a section with attribution is fine. Reposting entire pages as your own is not fine.

No warranties

This site is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, express or implied. We make no guarantees about availability, accuracy, or whether the site will continue to exist tomorrow.

We reserve the right to change, update, or remove content at any time without notice. If a page disappears, it’s probably because we found a better way to explain it, not because we’re hiding something.

Changes

These terms may be updated. If they are, the changes take effect immediately. We won’t email you about it because we don’t have your email. Check back if you’re the kind of person who reads terms of use for fun.

Last updated: March 2026