tldr
A collection of simplified and community-driven man pages.
Install it with npm install -g tldr
or try the web client.
What is tldr?
New to the command-line world? Or just a little rusty?
Or perhaps you can't always remember the arguments to lsof, or tar?
Maybe it doesn't help that the first option explained in man tar is:
-b blocksize
Specify the block size, in 512-byte records, for tape drive I/O.
As a rule, this argument is only needed when reading from or writing to tape drives,
and usually not even then as the default block size of 20 records (10240 bytes) is very common.
Surely people could benefit from simplified man pages
focused on practical examples.
How about:
This repository is just that: an ever-growing collection of examples
for the most common UNIX, Linux, macOS, SunOS and Windows commands.
Clients
You can access these pages on your computer using one of the following clients:
- Alfred Workflow
- Android clients:
- tldroid, available on
Google Play (outdated)
- tldroid, available on
- Bash clients:
- C# client
- C client:
brew install tldr - Chrome Extension available on
Chrome Web Store - Crystal client:
brew install porras/tap/tlcr - Dart client:
pub global activate tldr - Dash docset:
OpenPreferences>Downloads>User Contributedand findtldr pagesin the list - Docker images:
- tldr-docker- Run the
tldrcommand via a docker container:alias tldr='docker run --rm -it -v ~/.tldr/:/root/.tldr/ nutellinoit/tldr'
- tldr-docker- Run the
- Elixir client
(binaries not yet available) - Emacs client, available on
MELPA - Go clients:
- github.com/pranavraja/tldr:
go get github.com/pranavraja/tldr
(or platform binaries) - 4d63.com/tldr:
go get 4d63.com/tldrorbrew install 4d63/tldr/tldr
(or platform binaries) - github.com/elecprog/tldr:
go get github.com/elecprog/tldr
(or platform binaries) - github.com/isacikgoz/tldr:
go get github.com/isacikgoz/tldr
(or platform binaries)
- github.com/pranavraja/tldr:
- iOS clients:
- tldr-man-page, available on
App Store - tldr-pages, available on
App Store
- tldr-man-page, available on
- Haskell client:
stack install tldr
orapt-get install tldron Debian-based distributions - Node.js client:
npm install -g tldr - OCaml client:
opam install tldr - Perl5 client:
cpanm App::tldr - PHP client:
composer global require brainmaestro/tldr - Python clients:
- tldr-python-client:
pip install tldrorpacman -S tldron Arch Linux - tldr.py:
pip install tldr.pyorapt-get install tldr-pyon Debian-based distributions
- tldr-python-client:
- R client:
devtools::install_github('kirillseva/tldrrr') - Ruby client:
gem install tldrb - Rust client:
cargo install tealdeer - Vim Client
- Visual Studio Code extension available on Visual Studio Code Marketplace
- Web clients:
- tldr.jsx: http://tldr.ostera.io/
- DistroWatch
- tldr.ooops.me: web client with multilingual support
There is also a comprehensive
list of clients in our Wiki.
Contributing
- Your favourite command isn't covered?
- You can think of more examples for an existing command?
Contributions are most welcome!
We strive to maintain a welcoming and collaborative community.
Have a look at the contributing guidelines, and go ahead!
Similar projects
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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. -
Bro pages
are a highly readable supplement to man pages.
Bro pages show concise, common-case examples for Unix commands.
The examples are submitted by the user base, and can be voted up or down;
the best entries are what people see first when they look up a command. -
eg
provides detailed examples with explanations on the command line.
Examples come from the repository, butegsupports displaying
custom examples and commands alongside the defaults.
What does "tldr" mean?
TL;DR stands for "Too Long; Didn't Read".
It originates in Internet slang, where it is used to indicate that a long text
(or parts of it) has been skipped as too lengthy.
Read more in Wikipedia's TL;DR article.