"--help", the most useful parameter in GNU/Linux

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  • tldr

    📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

  • Sometimes --help or man is useful, but I've noticed that a lot of manpages are wildly verbose and don't prioritize giving examples for common use cases. Sometimes I want to know all the ins and outs of a specific program that I'll be using often (like apt for example) but other times I need a program to do one or two specific things (like converting a file with ffmpeg or extracting a RAR file with 7zip) and I don't want to know every parameter under the sun. That's why tldr is so great.

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    the only cheat sheet you need

  • cheat() { curl -sSL "https://cheat.sh/${1}" }

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  • tealdeer

    A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

  • but, tealdeer, tho. -- https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer

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