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Package ID

cheat

Version

5.1.0

Downloads

2963

Website

https://github.com/cheat/cheat

Summary

cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the commandline.

Description

cheat

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

Use cheat with cheatsheets.

Example

The next time you’re forced to disarm a nuclear weapon without consulting Google, you may run:

cheat tar

You will be presented with a cheatsheet resembling the following:

# 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/'

For more information about cheat see README.md.

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