JoelJLinux Command Cheat Sheet
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.
At that point just use ‘man grep’.
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.