[ale] command line cheat sheet cht.sh

DJ-Pfulio djpfulio at jdpfu.com
Wed Nov 7 12:42:51 EST 2018


There's a website that you can enter shell commands onto and it will explain
every option: https://explainshell.com/ - good for 'find' especially.

I prefer to use manpages. They are maintained by the project team, so they
should be the most accurate information available, especially as options change
from release to release.


On 11/7/18 11:50 AM, Scott Plante via Ale wrote:
> 
> I just ran across a cool little site cheat.sh aka cht.sh. It's designed to be
> used from the command line for quick help for bash, python, and many other
> languages. 
> 
> For a no-install use, you can type this, for example to 
> $ curl cht.sh/ls
> 
> There's also a short script you can create like this
> $ curl https://cht.sh/:cht.sh > ~/bin/cht.sh
> $ chmod +x ~/bin/cht.sh
> 
> Then you can just type
> $ cht.sh ss
> 
> There is bash tab completion available. There is also a vim plugin, plus some
> for other editors.
> 
> I only just started playing with it, but it looks promising. Has anyone been
> using it for a while and found it useful, or been disappointed?
> 
> Links:
> http://cheat.sh/
> https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh/blob/master/README.md
>  


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