• ForthEorlingas@lemmy.ca
    28·
    1 year ago

    On 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

    $ curl cheat.sh/grep

    And a short and sweet description with examples will be returned.

      • Agility0971@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        curl 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?

      • ISOmorph@feddit.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        I added a custom function to my bashrc:

        cheat-sheet() {
	curl cheat.sh/"$1"
}

        Then you can call cheat-sheet grep for example