If you are working on the Linux command line then sometimes you'll do a search to find out how to run a command that performs a task. I don't usually copy and paste commands in unless I can see what is going on, which used to mean spending time going through man pages and documentation trying to find out what this or that flag does.
That all changed when I found explainshell.com, which will extract the parameters of a command and tell you all about what the different flags will do.
Read more here: https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/explain-shell