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261 | 129 | |
47,917 | 23,196 | |
1.7% | - | |
10.0 | 3.2 | |
7 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Markdown | Rust | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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tldr
- Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
- Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
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Should you add screenshots to documentation?
Looks like bro pages is archived and they recommend https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr or https://github.com/cheat/cheat
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Have i made my own linux distro? ^_^
a very excellent tool to grab is TLDR https://tldr.sh/
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The Thing About PHP
> ...from the comments section on php.net. The latter was a surprisingly good source but none of this was ever sustainable.
Honestly, I wish more documentation out there had comments/discussion at the bottom.
For example, reading about setting up Open is Connect and having the first (most upvoted) comments on the first page explain things that might not be clear in the docs, analogies that make things easier to understand, or code/configuration snippets for a particular technology.
Somehow the comments in PHP docs were usually like: "after reading the docs, here's what you might want to really know", a bit like those tl;dr apps for manpages: https://tldr.sh/
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Making Hard Things Easy
I'm not a fan of man pages. Or any documentation that focuses on textual explanations rather than examples in code (looking at you aws).
I recently found https://tldr.sh/ and found it more convenient. I ended up writing myself a vscode extension to have a quick lookup at my fingertips, since I am at least 60% of the time looking at a terminal in vscode
There's also tldr: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
It lets you check the most commonly used options from your terminal, for example "tldr badblocks".
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The Case for Nushell
> Along those lines, a quick way to drive adoption could be a huge "how do i do x" or recipes page to Ctrl+F through. If I have to search the internet for how to do x in nushell/fish/etc, I might as well stick to arcane bash - at least you know someone has had the same problem before.
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Why is DNS still hard to learn?
TIL that `dig` does not have TLDR page https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
exa
- Exa Is Deprecated
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macOS Command-Line Tools You Might Not Know About
Some of us don't want all of GNU's utilities; just on an as-needed basis. They're not as needed as they once were.
Many of these utilities have been rewritten in Rust and have more modern features.
For example, instead of ls, I use exa [1]. Or ripgrep [2] instead of grep.
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List of apps I use every day - Version 2023
fish: A very fast shell with various customization options to streamline daily commands. I discovered it through this post by @caarlos0, where he provides more details about performance and the differences between fish and zsh. Additionally, I use some CLI utilities like delta, exa, and ripgrep. Here's my dotfiles for fish.
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Ls with icons
Hi! I use this: https://the.exa.website, and the package to this: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/exa/
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Everything I Installed on My New Mac
I still use exa for listing files in the terminal. It's a modern replacement for ls with a lot of useful features. With icons, colors, and git integration, it makes listing files much nicer.
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Top Productivity CLI Tools I Use on Linux
5. Exa
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Use colorls and font-awesome to add colors and icons to your ls output
There's also exa
- ls is bloat
- Quick File Sorter: An open source tool for sorting your files on Linux
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What kind of applications are missing from the Linux ecosystem?
Yeah, I see what you mean, perhaps exa could implement this, in case they don't already.
What are some alternatives?
lsd - The next gen ls command
cheat - cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.
tealdeer - A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.
cheat.sh - the only cheat sheet you need
colorls - A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons. :tada:
zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.
navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder