Three Manpage Alternatives - bropages, cheat and tldr DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Kevin
tldr -u didn't work for me. Wrong version?
-tldr -u
Invalid option --u'
Did you mean one of these?
-h
-v
Usage: tldr [-v---version] [--update] COMMAND
tldr Client program
-tldr -h
tldr - Simplified and community-driven man pages
Usage: tldr [-v---version] [--update] COMMAND
tldr Client program
Available options:
-h, --help Show this help text
-v, --version Show version
--update Update tldr pages
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tldr -u didn't work for me. Wrong version?
-tldr -u
Invalid option --u'
Did you mean one of these?
-h
-v
Usage: tldr [-v---version] [--update] COMMAND
tldr Client program
-tldr -h
tldr - Simplified and community-driven man pages
Usage: tldr [-v---version] [--update] COMMAND
tldr Client program
Available options:
-h, --help Show this help text
-v, --version Show version
--update Update tldr pages
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Chulito
Hey Distrohuggers,
It has been 17 days since my Tumbleweed install has any significant update. I am going fricking stir-crazy. Had I known there was going to be such a serious lull, I would have distrohopped. OpenSUSE does have a development branch called -Factory. - Maybe I should have been trying to figure out how to install that. That is on my list of things to do someday.
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Hey Distrohuggers,
It has been 17 days since my Tumbleweed install has any significant update. I am going fricking stir-crazy. Had I known there was going to be such a serious lull, I would have distrohopped. OpenSUSE does have a development branch called -Factory. - Maybe I should have been trying to figure out how to install that. That is on my list of things to do someday.
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R. a.
I wrote a lot of the man pages in BeOS for Be. inc back in the day. But I really wanted to use MSDOS -? - style help system in the binaries for simplification. Man pages can be hard to read if down right cryptic. Having help embedded in to the binary itself keeps things simple and the help of course stays with the binary. I know that's not nearly as flexible.
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I wrote a lot of the man pages in BeOS for Be. inc back in the day. But I really wanted to use MSDOS -? - style help system in the binaries for simplification. Man pages can be hard to read if down right cryptic. Having help embedded in to the binary itself keeps things simple and the help of course stays with the binary. I know that's not nearly as flexible.
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Lawrence
I worry that several of those -find- examples include complex piping and substitution that will look like black magic to those who are not _au fait_ with shell syntax. Combine that with cavalier use of dangerous commands like -rm-, and I sense an accident or two just waiting to happen.
Also, no love for GNU info? ;)
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I worry that several of those -find- examples include complex piping and substitution that will look like black magic to those who are not _au fait_ with shell syntax. Combine that with cavalier use of dangerous commands like -rm-, and I sense an accident or two just waiting to happen.
Also, no love for GNU info? ;)
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Kevin
bropages sounds like social media comes to documentaton.
cheat seems pretty useful. especially just to get quick reminders rather than go to googling.
tldr would need a closer comparison to cheat, but I'd foresee one supersceding the other someday based on rate of content getting into it.
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bropages sounds like social media comes to documentaton.
cheat seems pretty useful. especially just to get quick reminders rather than go to googling.
tldr would need a closer comparison to cheat, but I'd foresee one supersceding the other someday based on rate of content getting into it.
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Grayson
Installed ruby-bropages, cheat-git, and tldr using yaourt. Thanks DistroTube, you rock! :)
I've made a discovery using bropages for vim. I can remotely edit files with vim by using scp: // protocol. Very similar to using scp except that with scp there's no need to specify the protocol.
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Installed ruby-bropages, cheat-git, and tldr using yaourt. Thanks DistroTube, you rock! :)
I've made a discovery using bropages for vim. I can remotely edit files with vim by using scp: // protocol. Very similar to using scp except that with scp there's no need to specify the protocol.
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Strawberry
This was awesome! Learned a lot today, thanks! But every distro is a bit on it's own.
With Ubuntu Mate 19. 10 the bro works fine, the cheat is behaving strange and not working, tldr is nice.
With GhostBSD bro works fine too, cheat is nice and tldr does not exist.
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This was awesome! Learned a lot today, thanks! But every distro is a bit on it's own.
With Ubuntu Mate 19. 10 the bro works fine, the cheat is behaving strange and not working, tldr is nice.
With GhostBSD bro works fine too, cheat is nice and tldr does not exist.
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rmcellig
Another excellent video! One video I would love to see is the terminal compared to the GUI. You have the terminal on one side and the GUI on the other. Then you show commands like mv, cp, etc. to compare and why the terminal is a better choice in some cases over the GUI.
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Another excellent video! One video I would love to see is the terminal compared to the GUI. You have the terminal on one side and the GUI on the other. Then you show commands like mv, cp, etc. to compare and why the terminal is a better choice in some cases over the GUI.
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Lawrence
6: 10 I see no examples using the -print0 option, together with piping into -xargs -0-. This can be useful with dangerous commands like -rm- (of which I see several instances in the examples, just in case a filename has something strange like a newline in it.
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6: 10 I see no examples using the -print0 option, together with piping into -xargs -0-. This can be useful with dangerous commands like -rm- (of which I see several instances in the examples, just in case a filename has something strange like a newline in it.
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Friedrich
Tried to install bropages from the AUR and it failed. Something about not being able to resolve a dependency. Oh well. Not looking to get back into Ruby again, and the other two works quite well on my Arch setup.
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Tried to install bropages from the AUR and it failed. Something about not being able to resolve a dependency. Oh well. Not looking to get back into Ruby again, and the other two works quite well on my Arch setup.
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