TIL: tldr
You may have been already familiar with the man
command which is used to see the manual for a
linux command. It is useful but can be too verbose sometimes depending on your use case so here comes
another tool tldr which derived it's name from the famous too long did not read.
Its tagline is Simplified and community-driven man pages
and it aims to provide a simplified version
of the man pages. Aside from being simplified it also provides examples on the use cases of a command.
It is community-driven which means if you can just send a PR on it's repository for any missing data
or if you want to improve existing information.
I won't consider tldr
a replacement for the man
pages since there are still cases when you would
like to know deeper information. However, it is an effective tool since it gives you what you need right
away most of the time. I see myself using it often from now :)
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