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• Should you add screenshots to documentation?

  Cheat.sh [0] has been a godsend when the man pages are too dense and I just want to use the tool and move on with my life. [0] http://cheat.sh/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• ? - The only cheat sheet you need

  I like what you're doing with this, never used cheat.sh before but had a little look around and great idea :) I've not tested everything, I seen something about find and thought I could help. Source: about 2 years ago

• Favorite aliases?

  Query http://cheat.sh for help with a command. Source: about 2 years ago

• Linux Command Line Cheat Sheet: All the Commands You Need

  Try cheat.sh perfect when your in the shell, working. Source: about 2 years ago

• Intro to PowerShell

  There is also the awesome resource - cheat.sh where you can get info about many programming languages, for example, to get info about PowerShell's Get-ChildItem command you can just issue a command curl cheat.sh/powershell/Get-ChildItem in your terminal or go to https://cht.sh/powershell/Get-ChildItem in your browser and get the following output:. Source: about 2 years ago

• How do you get used to and remember commands?

  Tab completion, command history search with fzf and http://cheat.sh/ (I just make an alias for it and call it like: cheat how to git bisect). Source: over 2 years ago

• Why can't I hold all these syntaxes?

  Search for something specific - https://cheat.sh/, cht.sh, or socli. Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Terminal Cheatsheets

  There are tons of these. I use this one: https://cheat.sh/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• What video(s) really demonstrates how effective and helpful vim can be?

  Implementing custom commands. Continuing the :!ddgr example above, say you want to run ddgr in vim's integrated terminal, like :terminal ddgr , you can write a custom command like command! -nargs=* DDGR terminal ddgr . If you prefer google, you could do the same with :terminal googler or you could leverage DuckDuckGo's bangs like command! -nargs=* GOOG terminal ddgr !g . This means you can also query any number of... Source: over 2 years ago

• What's in my RC 2022

  When I don't remember how to use a certain utility, this cheatsheet API is always handy. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Who needs "GitHub Copilot" when you have "cheat.sh" for editors like VS code, Sublime, Vim etc. I get the answers I need straight from in the editor :)

  Vscode-snippet uses cheat.sh .. This is what it meant. Source: over 2 years ago

• Wish I had this when I was in my days of experimenting with Linux😞 A one stop list of Linux bash commands and never again waste time with searching google

  What's weird is both use the same README that references https://cheat.sh/, but that site doesn't reference either. Instead, it points to this original copy, which also has a much more comprehensive readme. Source: over 2 years ago

• Problem with creating alias

  You mean to add the alias like this: cht='function cht() { curl http://cheat.sh/$1 }'? Because it's not working. Source: over 2 years ago

• Problem with creating alias

  I am trying to create alias for this command: curl http://cheat.sh/ and when I want to get information about command line tool instead of executing, for example curl http://cheat.sh/ls, I want to run alias ls. I tried this alias: alias cht='curl http://cheat.sh/' but when I run cht ls it doesn't work. Source: over 2 years ago

• yt-dlp with progress bar (0-100%) possible?

  Here are a couple to get you started: - https://linuxcommandlibrary.com/ - https://cheat.sh/ (also available in your terminal with curl) - https://cheatography.com/ (not limited to Linux only or the CLI) - https://www.commandlinefu.com. Source: over 2 years ago

• Making my personal Linux command notes public which I made a few months back. I think a lot of you guys might find it helpful.

  Yeah! I wasn't offended tho 😅. And thanks for sharing cheat.sh and tldr. ;). Source: over 2 years ago

• Making my personal Linux command notes public which I made a few months back. I think a lot of you guys might find it helpful.

  "Why do people need to publish their cheat sheet instead of contributing to cheat.sh or tldr ? ". Source: over 2 years ago

• Is There Any Method For Checking If REPL Is Running As a Login Shell?

  (defun cheat (&optional (target-program nil)) "Show quick tips and usage information for target-program." (if (not target-program) (uiop:run-program (list "curl" "-fLm" "7" "https://cheat.sh/") :output *standard-output*) (uiop:run-program (list "curl" "-fLm" "7" (concatenate 'string "https://cheat.sh/" target-program)) :output *standard-output*))). Source: over 2 years ago

• My new favourite "man" replacement

  I'm using cheat.sh too, got a function like this: Cht () { curl "cheat.sh/$1" }. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Help! Trying to access handshakes on Windows

  Http://cheat.sh is also a handy resource; it gives more examples than the built-in man pages for many tools. Beyond this, google how to use the tool. Source: almost 3 years ago

• I wrote a compilation of CLI tools I've been using for 2+ years. One of my first blog posts!

  Tldr - I use cheat, which seems to have a bigger DB which includes the tldr database. Source: almost 3 years ago