New Discovery, tldr command, "simplified man pages"

[rickNS]

Described as "Read man pages in simple format" or similar on a couple of websites.
I do not quite agree with that, it is not man pages, or a substitute for them.
It IS IMO a compliment, and a good addition to them.

The command tldr <command> when run outputs a short description, and a few examples of the most common uses of that command.

Here an example using apt;

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rick@t420:~$ tldr apt
apt
Package management utility for Debian based distributions.Recommended replacement for apt-get when used interactively in Ubuntu versions 16.04 and later.For equivalent commands in other package managers, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta.More information: https://manpages.debian.org/latest/apt/apt.8.html.

 - Update the list of available packages and versions (it's recommended to run this before other apt commands):
   sudo apt update

 - Search for a given package:
   apt search {{package}}

 - Show information for a package:
   apt show {{package}}

 - Install a package, or update it to the latest available version:
   sudo apt install {{package}}

 - Remove a package (using purge instead also removes its configuration files):
   sudo apt remove {{package}}

 - Upgrade all installed packages to their newest available versions:
   sudo apt upgrade

 - List all packages:
   apt list

 - List installed packages:
   apt list --installed

If interested, can be found in the software manager, or installed via command;

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apt update

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apt install tldr

Then update tldr database,

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tldr -u

[mikeflan]

Yeah, that is a good one. I put this in /home/mike/.bashrc:

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alias mane='/home/mike/.local/bin/tldr'

mane stands for man example.

[spamegg]

New discovery

Welcome to the club! It's nice here Been using tldr for a few years.

[rickNS]

Welcome to the club! It's nice here Been using tldr for a few years.

I just discovered it, "stumbled across it" actually just the other day.
BECAUSE, I never seen it on a list of Linux commands, this probably the most complete one I've seen https://ss64.com/bash/

This (or that ?) is one of the things I really like about Linux, there is so much, there is always something new to discover / learn...what fun !

[spamegg]

I just discovered it, "stumbled across it" actually just the other day.

It helps to browse Github.
It gives recommendations for repositories.
I discovered so much Terminal stuff there.
tldr, ripgrep, colorls, oh-my-zsh, powerlevel10k, bat, kitty, mcfly, ble.sh, fzf, ...

There is a lot of good stuff right here: https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix

[rickNS]

It helps to browse Github.
It gives recommendations for repositories.
I discovered so much Terminal stuff there.
tldr, ripgrep, colorls, oh-my-zsh, powerlevel10k, bat, kitty, mcfly, ble.sh, fzf, ...

There is a lot of good stuff right here: https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix

THANKS !
There is some "good stuff" there.
I'm playing with the "new" "find" command...listed there as fd, but now called fdfind

Described as "A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find"