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Re: Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

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Post by maxmalysh » Tue, May 19, 2020, 3:18 AM UTC

    $ curl cheat.sh/tar
    $ curl cheat.sh/ssh
    $ curl cheat.sh/awk

Re: Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

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Post by rosstex » Tue, May 19, 2020, 3:24 AM UTC

bash-3.2$ howdoi "delete my root directory? Hypothetically speaking of course"

Re: Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

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Post by Mizza » Tue, May 19, 2020, 3:51 AM UTC

There's already a popular `howdoi` that me and a buddy made:

https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi

Re: Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

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Post by stephenr » Tue, May 19, 2020, 5:47 AM UTC

This would be good if.. you know.. `man` didn't exist.

Re: Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

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Post by rambojazz » Tue, May 19, 2020, 5:57 AM UTC

Where is the information/data retrieved from?

Re: Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

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Post by Gaelan » Tue, May 19, 2020, 6:02 AM UTC

stephenr wrote: post #14

This would be good if.. you know.. `man` didn't exist.

Man is a terrible tool for quickly remembering how to do something I do once in a while. The examples—usually the most important part—are usually at the very bottom, if they’re even there.

Re: Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

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Post by superasn » Tue, May 19, 2020, 6:23 AM UTC

rambojazz wrote: post #15

Where is the information/data retrieved from?

It searches google and prioritizes results from askubuntu, stackexchange and stackoverflow

Re: Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

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Post by the_pwner224 » Tue, May 19, 2020, 6:33 AM UTC

Mizza wrote: post #13

There's already a popular `howdoi` that me and a buddy made: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi

Thanks. It works for 'get epoch time' which means it'll get added to my system :)

Re: Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

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Post by Fragoel2 » Tue, May 19, 2020, 6:36 AM UTC

Gaelan wrote: post #16

stephenr wrote: post #14

This would be good if.. you know.. `man` didn't exist.

Man is a terrible tool for quickly remembering how to do something I do once in a while. The examples—usually the most important part—are usually at the very bottom, if they’re even there.

Agree, for this very reason I found tldr to be very useful (https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr)

Re: Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

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Post by stephenr » Tue, May 19, 2020, 6:59 AM UTC

Gaelan wrote: post #16

stephenr wrote: post #14

This would be good if.. you know.. `man` didn't exist.

Man is a terrible tool for quickly remembering how to do something I do once in a while. The examples—usually the most important part—are usually at the very bottom, if they’re even there.

If you know something is at the bottom of the output, Shift-G is your friend.

I also tend to believe that if you read the options enough you'll be more likely to remember it.