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Re: Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

#12
post #8

I like how this gives me access to succinct example usages of tools just enough to get me going or to jog my memory for how a certain tool works — without having to resort to using a browser and a search engine. curl cht.sh/find curl cht.sh/sed Like these.

If you're wondering where this tool gets its data from, have a look:

https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh#cheat-sheets-sources

Re: Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

#15
I like it. I also like the feature 'Freak_NL pointed out - quick memory-jogging examples for a command.

Speaking of those top-level queries, I've noticed some of them are reported as unknown, even though they then are suggested. Observe:

  temporal@galactica~> curl cht.sh/lisp
  Unknown topic.
  Do you mean one of these topics may be?
  
      * lisp/ 100
      * elisp/ 89
      * alias 67
Changing the URL to cht.sh/alias correctly gives a list of examples, while lisp and elisp are always reported as unknown. My guess is, something somewhere is storing those tokens with forward slash in the name, whereas the HTTP handling code strips it out from request.

EDIT: https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh/issues/32. I need to kick the habit of writing HN comments first, then bug reports later :).

Re: Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

#18
post #13

There's also a cheat sheet built into nearly every computer - it's called man pages.

This is true but they are often long and complicated and aren't always conducive to quick solutions or refreshing memories of a useful combination of arguments.

It is good to have both.

Re: Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

#20
post #13

There's also a cheat sheet built into nearly every computer - it's called man pages.

those are hard to be considered cheat sheets... extensive reference documentation, maybe, but "command --help" is more similar to a cheat sheet than "man command"
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