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The Ultimate Cheat Sheet: CLI Man Pages, tldr, and cheat.sh
- This article introduces three major solutions for CLI-cheat-sheet-tools, including man pages, tldr and cheat.sh, focusing on their advantages, installation, how to use, and learn more.
- Man pages, the official documentation method on Unix-like systems, provide offline references for nearly every system command, library or config file.
- tldr (short for "too long, didn't read") is a community-driven project providing concise, example-focused cheat sheets for popular commands that are typically 5 to 10 lines in length.
- cheat.sh is a curl-based web tool that aggregates both CLI commands and programming snippets, covering 56 programming languages, several DBMSes, and more than 1,000 UNIX/Linux commands.
- Man pages are perfect for advanced or obscure flags, but can be overwhelming when you just want a quick example.
- tldr provides minimal and fast cheat sheets for everyday tasks. It also has an offline cache feature.
- cheat.sh offers curl-friendly access for CLI commands and language cheat sheets in one place, albeit requiring an internet connection.
- There are also other similar tools like eg, cheat, and devhints, which provide practical command-line examples, interactive cheatsheets, and easy-to-navigate cheatsheets respectively.
- The article concludes with a reminder that mixing and matching these tools will provide all the necessary means to tackle any situation.
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