Open source command-line utilities to get technical tips and answers instantly.
In my previous article, I talked about command-line utilities that help us to navigate the file system faster. As developers, we mostly live within the terminal, and there are tons of commands that we may need to use from time to time.
In this article let’s go through the open-source utilities that can provide us the tips and answers when we need help.
Linux man-pages project
Let’s start with the default — The Linux man-pages project.
This project documents the Linux kernel and C library interfaces that are employed by user-space programs. It is definitely the most comprehensive documentation for the built-in commands. However, navigating the man pages and pinpointing the specific information that we want is definitely a bit challenging.
cheat.sh
cheat.sh provides unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheet repositories of the world.
It supports integration with your favorite editors, e,g. VSCode, Emacs, Vim/Neovim, IntelliJ, etc.
- Has a simple curl/browser/editor interface.
- Covers 56 programming languages, several DBMSes, and more than 1000 most important UNIX/Linux commands.
- Provides access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories in the world, on par with StackOverflow.
- Available everywhere, no installation needed, but can be installed for offline usage.
- Ultrafast, returns answers within 100 ms, as a rule.
