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tldr
is a command-line tool that I've been using a lot recently.
Usually, on the command line, you'd use the man
command to show a manual page for a certain command - like man ls
.
tldr
is "a collection of simplified and community-driven man pages".
After installing it, run man tldr
or even tldr tldr
to learn more about it.
Then, run a command like tldr ls
to get output for a specific command.
I like that it shows a short description of what the command does, followed by a link to find out more information and then several valuable examples demonstrating the various options, flags, and arguments the command takes.
For ls
, it shows how to list one file per line, list hidden files, use a long format list, show human-readable size units, long format sorted by size or modification date, and only show directories.
For commands like tar
, rsync
, and scp
that I don't use that often or can't remember all of the different options, I like being able to see these examples and figure out what I need at that time.
tldr
is a command-line tool that I've been using a lot recently.
Usually, on the command line, you'd use the man
command to show a manual page for a certain command - like man ls
.
tldr
is "a collection of simplified and community-driven man pages".
After installing it, run man tldr
or even tldr tldr
to learn more about it.
Then, run a command like tldr ls
to get output for a specific command.
I like that it shows a short description of what the command does, followed by a link to find out more information and then several valuable examples demonstrating the various options, flags, and arguments the command takes.
For ls
, it shows how to list one file per line, list hidden files, use a long format list, show human-readable size units, long format sorted by size or modification date, and only show directories.
For commands like tar
, rsync
, and scp
that I don't use that often or can't remember all of the different options, I like being able to see these examples and figure out what I need at that time.