Sucks to not learn about zsh until the very end though ;)

Haha! I understand the sentiment :)

But it was ok, NetBSD doesn't have zsh installed by default (and neither bash, only csh, sh and (pd? m?)ksh). When I did that, I was primed to use tcsh at $WORK. Switched to ksh later (and remained on there for a loooong time).

Anyways. I failed to make an actual point. My point was the following: The BSD manpages are _excellent_. IMO way better than the linux/GNU manpages (or info pages) of comparable utilities. It shows, again IMO, that the BSDs are a complete, single-tree distribution where documentation, userland and kernel go hand in hand and are equally well groomed.

So maybe, for learning "UNIX", go get yourself a nice little {Net,Free,Open}BSD install and toy around with the elder ways.

FWIW it was just a silly joke. I was going to write xargs first, but then realized that there's a couple of letters after x. I'm not even a zsh user myself.

I honestly agree that reading through the man-pages a good idea (after you've acquired some basic knowledge already of course), and as a Linux user I'm a bit envious of many things BSD, the documentation included.