TLDR Instead of MAN

· by Victor Mendonça · Read in about 1 min · (111 words) ·

Here’s a quick way to get quick simplified explanation and usage for commands in Bash with TLDR Pages.

$ tldr tldr
# tldr                                                                            

  Simplified man pages.                                                           

- Get typical usages of a command (hint: this is how you got here!):              

  tldr command       

TLDR pages is community driven and holds common commands for UNIX, Linux, macOS, SunOS and Windows. The amount of commands available is already pretty vast, and users are encouraged to contribute with new pages on their git repo - https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr.

You can also access a web/live version of tldr on https://tldr.ostera.io/.

Install

Arch

pacman -Sy community/tldr

Other distros:

npm install -g tldr

Snap

sudo snap install tldr

Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.tldroid

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