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Edvard:
Cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.

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https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat




How it works:

The next time you're forced to disarm a nuclear weapon without consulting Google, you may run:
cheat tarYou will be presented with a cheatsheet resembling:
# To extract an uncompressed archive:
tar -xvf /path/to/foo.tar

# To extract a .gz archive:
tar -xzvf /path/to/foo.tgz

# To create a .gz archive:
tar -czvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/

# To extract a .bz2 archive:
tar -xjvf /path/to/foo.tgz

# To create a .bz2 archive:
tar -cjvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/To see what cheatsheets are availble, run cheat -l.

Note that, while cheat was designed primarily for *nix system administrators, it is agnostic as to what content it stores. If you would like to use cheat to store notes on your favorite cookie recipes, feel free.
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He also lists some other similar solutions:
https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat#related-projects

from NixCraft

mouser:
ha!

Renegade:
Which should I run first?


* cheat cheat
* cheat -help
 :huh:

ewemoa:
Interesting find.

Haven't tried it, but liked the naming of tldr -- one of the projects listed under similar solutions.

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