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I've found tldr to be useful https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by rusted_gear · 2026-04-08 · in Git commands I run before reading any code

…I’m half-tempted to write a converter from their dialect of Markdown to roff and run it against https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr so I can do `man tldr ffmpeg`.

comment by mananaysiempre · 2026-02-20 · in Notes on Clarifying Man Pages

Nice, the `qq` part reminds me of this project: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr That said, I rather use claude in headless mode https://code.claude.com/docs/en/headless

comment by hmokiguess · 2025-11-06 · in Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell

is this not just `tldr`? https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by kiitos · 2025-09-06 · in Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

…quite a few tools to try to help with understanding CLI options; off the top of my head there are https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr and explainshell.com LLMs are both more general and more useful than those tools. They're more flexible…

comment by Arcuru · 2025-04-12 · in AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem

…concerns: agreed! We should generate one-shot jails before firing up 'curl | sh' or 'llm CLI'. [1] https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/main/pages/common/ff...

comment by Fnoord · 2025-01-19 · in Show HN: LLMpeg

You might like (contributing to) https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr , I'm sure your notes would be helpful to me and others! Not sure if they've got a section for specific editor packages, yet.

comment by bowmessage · 2024-08-13 · in Emacs: Contextual Interfaces in Casual Calc

Maybe this already helps: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by is_taken · 2024-04-19 · in Ask HN: Is there a GUI for bash shell?

…use cases, but those are often what make the case for a tool! A similar spirit to projects like https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/ , but this has a lot more useful detail. The ripgrep author has a blog post on performance and benchmarking…

comment by abought · 2024-03-19 · in Try / Ripgrep in Y Minutes

Looks like bro pages is archived and they recommend https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr or https://github.com/cheat/cheat

comment by jaktet · 2023-12-14 · in Should you add screenshots to documentation?

There's also tldr: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr It lets you check the most commonly used options from your terminal, for example "tldr badblocks".

comment by Sakos · 2023-10-06 · in Making Hard Things Easy

…I might as well stick to arcane bash - at least you know someone has had the same problem before. https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by westernpopular · 2023-08-31 · in The case for Nushell

TIL that `dig` does not have TLDR page https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by hairui · 2023-07-28 · in Why is DNS still hard to learn?

A similar project is tldr. https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer

comment by S04dKHzrKT · 2023-07-02 · in Googling for answers costs time (2020)

I've used tldr ( https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr ) if I'm a beginner to a specific tool, then read up the manpages and/or SO if I need more flags.

comment by tzhenghao · 2023-05-24 · in I didn’t learn Unix by reading all the manpages (2022)

I hadn't heard of tldr. Looks neat! Here's a link for other people who didn't know: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by justeleblanc · 2023-04-14 · in What is NMAP and how to use it? (2020)

…that Copilot CLI thing kind of sounds like another level of laziness and less Googling. [1] https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by debugdog · 2023-03-22 · in GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

see also https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by asicsp · 2022-11-24 · in Ask HN: Help recall command line util to search for code documentation

…common operations. Web interface: https://tldr.ostera.io/asdf Other clients (ways to access it): https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/wiki/tldr-pages-clients

comment by sundarurfriend · 2022-10-25 · in Asdf – language tool version manager

…skeptical about GPT-3 generated comments, but I can recommend the other TLDR whole heartedly! [0] https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by tayloramurphy · 2022-09-23 · in TLDR explains what a piece of code does

I love tldr for this https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by lrobinovitch · 2022-08-09 · in From novice to master, and back again (2013)

My goto for useful examples is tldr : https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr .

comment by thijsvandien · 2022-08-07 · in Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years)

Looks similar to https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by nicoco · 2022-06-30 · in Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?

tldr.sh is a similar project. https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by goplayoutside · 2022-03-19 · in Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands

I love tldr for this too https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by pizza · 2022-03-18 · in Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands

there is also "tldr" https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by laerus · 2022-02-26 · in Coding and Confusion

…notes and tips on using the command-line, suitable for both beginners and experienced users * https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools * http://www.compciv.org/unix-tools/…

comment by asicsp · 2022-01-05 · in Linuxgems – A succinct cheat sheet for newbie Linux coders and sysadmins

Slightly unrelated, but this proposal is my first time running into tldr pages ( https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr ). Has anyone used them before (or the variants that the repo mentions)? Are they good? Their live demo seems to be…

comment by danShumway · 2022-01-03 · in A modest proposal to fix web search

https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by neolog · 2021-06-12 · in Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

I think it's worth mentioning tldr as an effort towards more readable man pages: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr Personally I like tealdeer for a tldr client b/c it's written in Rust and I think the name is fun, but the other tldr…

comment by skyfaller · 2021-05-25 · in Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

I use tldr-pages: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by crazypython · 2021-04-26 · in How to Learn Unix Tools

There is tldr: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/pages/common/...

comment by ducktective · 2021-04-09 · in FFmpeg 4.4

I guess you could consider https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr . I personally wouldn't touch that, but that's related to my allergies to JS ecosystem and predisposition to panic attacks when I see stuff like that…

comment by hnjst · 2021-04-09 · in Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019)

https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr is a large collection

comment by neolog · 2021-03-01 · in Create animated GIF and WebP from videos using FFmpeg

…CLI tools: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/ https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr EDIT: formatting

comment by antipaul · 2020-06-09 · in Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

…like using the "tldr" command line tool. It gives a short overview of the most common commands. https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/

comment by xerxesaa · 2020-05-28 · in CLIs are reified UIs (2017)

I use tldr[0] for that. [0]: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/

comment by aastronaut · 2020-05-28 · in CLIs are reified UIs (2017)

…mention: good examples of common actions. (Though I use the Rust implementation tealdeer [1]) [0]: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr [1]: https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer

comment by ashton314 · 2020-05-27 · in CLIs are reified UIs (2017)

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

comment by Fragoel2 · 2020-05-19 · in Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal

…lot just by reading the examples shown, and then read the man pages if I am missing something. [1] https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by kmundnic · 2020-05-01 · in Show HN: RegEx for Regular Folk – A visual, example-based introduction

Not built-in but hstr ( https://github.com/dvorka/hstr ) and tldr ( https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr ) are awesome.

comment by hattori · 2020-04-25 · in Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks

There are many clients that are open source that you can use check these out: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr#clients

comment by techplex · 2020-01-23 · in TLDR pages: Simplified, community-driven man pages

https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/pages/common/... - this is advertising dressed up as a "community man page"

comment by dvfjsdhgfv · 2020-01-23 · in TLDR pages: Simplified, community-driven man pages

I don't think you need Nodejs. There are a large number of clients listed here https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr#clients

comment by beart · 2020-01-22 · in TLDR pages: Simplified, community-driven man pages

…top use cases, and it's pretty clear from the context what the flags are doing. (As seen here: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/pages/common/... ) If I don't see my use-case in tldr I'll move on to the man page. OTOH,…

comment by lordgrenville · 2020-01-22 · in TLDR pages: Simplified, community-driven man pages

…`tldr program_name` gives you a way simpler manual with common flags and actual examples. [1] https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by MFogleman · 2019-12-05 · in Command Line Tools to Break Your Dependence on the GUI

TLDR pages ( https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr ) are nice exactly for this use case. There's also a web interface, for tar that'd be: https://tldr.ostera.io/tar

comment by tasuki · 2019-06-24 · in I’m not really a good web developer, I'm just good at Googling things

…issue you can use ZSH or pimp your bash as well). Then there is other kind of man pages like TLDR ( https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr ) which is curated by community and quite awesome ;-)

comment by VvR-Ox · 2019-02-10 · in Explain shell

Here is a step in that direction: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by alanbernstein · 2019-02-04 · in Z.lua – A new cd command that navigates faster by learning your habits

There is a similar cli tool called tldr[1]. It's very useful and simple to invoke. [1] https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

comment by valtism · 2019-01-14 · in Ask HN: Best things in your bash_profile/aliases?