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ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
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oils
Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!
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httpie
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (by httpie)
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murex
A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
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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.
NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better tldr alternative or higher similarity.
tldr discussion
tldr reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of tldr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-07.
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5 CLI Tools I Use to Keep Terminal Workflows Less Annoying
tldr is perfect when man pages are too detailed and you only need the common examples.
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The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
I've found tldr to be useful
https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
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How to setup Terminal tools for Mac
tldr-pages/tldr
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Notes on Clarifying Man Pages
I like everything about tldr except for the fact that it needs to be an Internet-dependent client for some reason. Looking at how it works again, I’m half-tempted to write a converter from their dialect of Markdown to roff and run it against https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr so `man tldr ffmpeg` works.
- My Dev Multirepo Setup for JS projects with dependencies
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Show HN: qqqa – a fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell
Nice, the `qq` part reminds me of this project: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
That said, I rather use claude in headless mode https://code.claude.com/docs/en/headless
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Just Use Curl
Have a look at https://tldr.sh/ - simplified manpages with practical examples.
Browseable on the web, but commandline clients are widely avaiable. See https://tldr.inbrowser.app/pages/common/curl for an example of the output for curl.
- Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search
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15 bash scripts to automate boring DevOps tasks so you can go play Elden Ring instead
tldr.sh community-powered simplified man pages
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AI Coding and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Problem
Before LLMs there existed quite a few tools to try to help with understanding CLI options; off the top of my head there are https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr and explainshell.com
LLMs are both more general and more useful than those tools. They're more flexible and composable, and can replace those tools with a small wrapper script. Part of the reason why the LLMs can do that though is because it has those other tools as datasets to train off of.
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www.saashub.com | 10 Jul 2026
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tldr-pages/tldr is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of tldr is Markdown.
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