SIH Tech Tidbits

Useful tips, libraries and tools from the Sydney Informatics Hub team

tldr: A short, sweet, alternative to man pages


If you want to get something done in your shell but don't want to scour through a whole man page looking for the right combination of options, tldr might have answers for you.

tldr is a shell tool (installable via brew install tldr) that gives short, human-readable examples of common shell commands, as an alternative to man pages. For example, running tldr ls gives:

tldr ls output

tldr also has specific pages for individual git commands, with examples of how to use it in specific situations. e.g. for tldr git rebase:

tldr git output