Wow I love the idea. Will try it out today. Could be a time saving pal when switching to topics you are not working on every day.
How is it better than google
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#22There's also a cheat sheet built into nearly every computer - it's called man pages.
Sure, but some are very short, and others are very long and impenetrable. I like ones with examples. A better option is often "foo -h".
Also, the times a manpage contains examples seems like 1 in 20.
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#23This cleverly one-ups http://bropages.org/ by leveraging an existing command in the environment you are most likely to type "bro curl", but you don't need to install a tool first.
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#24Wow I love the idea. Will try it out today. Could be a time saving pal when switching to topics you are not working on every day.
How is it better than google
Can you quickly find cheat sheets in a similar style to one another via google? Some people prefer to stay in their commandline as much as possible, too.
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#25It is interesting to see how the title effect number of upvotes and comments. I’ve submitted this other day and it did not get any upvotes. My submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17471476
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#26Similar project: Bro pages, like man pages but short examples of common use cases instead of extensive documentation.
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#27Similar project: http://tldr.sh
https://explainshell.com
is sort of a reverse
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#28This is not working at all for me. I keep getting HTML & CSS vomit regardless on whether I use their command line tool or curl.
post a
curl -v cht.sh
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#29Is the dropdown at https://cht.sh/ a little sluggish in chrome for everybody?
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#30Not very respectful of https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat to use the same name.
The original cheat does exactly the same thing, has a big following and more stars, and has existed for years.
I've opened an issue re: the name conflict https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh/issues/34
Afaik these are the big players in the space: - bro: https://github.com/hubsmoke/bro - tldr: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr - cheat: https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat