cheat
A command-line tool for creating and viewing interactive cheatsheets for commands you use occasionally.
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Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install cheat
About cheat
cheat lets you create and view cheatsheets from the command line. It was designed to remind Unix system administrators of the options for commands they use often, but not often enough to remember.
You type cheat followed by a command name to see a short page of practical examples, and you can write and edit your own sheets alongside shared ones. It is written in Go, and the repository includes installation notes and a Dockerfile.
Strengths
- Quick examples for commands without reading full man pages
- Personal cheatsheets can be written and edited
- Single Go program
Limitations
- Usefulness depends on the cheatsheets you install or write
- No graphical interface
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- MIT
- Developer
- The cheat contributors
- Platforms
- macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- System administrators who keep forgetting command options
- Categories
- CLI tools, Developer tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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navi
An interactive command-line cheatsheet tool for browsing and running commands with suggested argument values.
navi adds running commands directly from cheatsheets with dynamic argument suggestions, under the Apache-2.0 license instead of MIT.
tldr pages
Community-written example pages that replace verbose manual pages.
tldr pages provides community-written example pages with terminal, browser and editor clients, rather than cheatsheets you mainly write yourself.
tealdeer
Read concise, example-based command help in the terminal.
tealdeer reads concise example-based command help from a cached page set that works offline and runs on Windows as well.
pet
Save and find reusable command snippets.
pet stores your own reusable command snippets with tags, search and parameters, and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.
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