JoelJLinux Command Cheat Sheet
learnbyexampleSee also:
- tldr — collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools
- explainshell — write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument
- General purpose command-line tools — examples for most common usecases
- Bash reference cheatsheet — nicely formatted and explained well
- Bash scripting cheatsheet — quick reference to getting started with Bash scripting
to add on to this, cheat with some similar functions to tldr but also allows editing and writing one’s one cheat sheet
GitHub - cheat/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.
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 ...
ForthEorlingasOn a related note, the website cheat.sh is also a great resource. Just curl it with the command you want to learn about as the endpoint.
For example, if I want to learn about grep, just open a terminal and
And a short and sweet description with examples will be returned.
My main issue with this is it requires a cheat sheet just to view a cheat sheet.
ISOmorphI added a custom function to my bashrc:
cheat-sheet() { curl cheat.sh/"$1" }Then you can call cheat-sheet grep for example
At that point just use ‘man grep’.
Agility0971curl cheat.sh/command is more useful because it just spits out common examples. man is only useful if you need complete documentation or need to build a complex oneliner.
I never remember hot to extract tar files? would you dive into the documentation for that or look up a cheatsheet?
Cheat.sh has usage examples, with short descriptions. It’s purpose is remembering something you have already done. It’s much more similar to --help flag than full manpage.
Reading the cheat.sh of a command I don’t know at all is rarely useful. I use it when simply listing the flags isn’t enough, or the output unhelpfully long. curl returns so fast that it’s faster to request data from external server than read through three paragraphs.
If you haven’t tried it, give it a go. The whole point is to be very quick to type and give back text that is fast to read.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆Without the spam ad insanity:
Ublock origin works too
astrskI would love to have a poster of this in that old Apple Basic reference poster style
If suggestions for other helpful sites is ok, I visit SS64.com frequently for help with commands. I like that it has Linux and windows CMD and powershell help, so I can just remember one place to go to.
