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minus-squaremacallik@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-21 year agoUsing curl as a substitute for man/help has made it one of my most used commands for me as of late: curl cheat.sh/AnyLinuxCommand to view tldr/cheat tips Also great for the weather via curl wttr.in Hopefully more commands utilize this technique
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoThanks for the tip! I sometimes use the program tldr for this purpose.
minus-squaremacallik@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agotldr is also baked into cheat.sh too! (But it’s redundant if you already have tldr/bro/etc installed probably)
minus-squaresebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoUnfortunately wttr.in produces incorrect weather reports in many cities around the world
minus-squaremacallik@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoDid not know about this. Care to elaborate?
minus-squaresebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agohttps://github.com/chubin/wttr.in/issues/854 and similar issues
Using curl as a substitute for man/help has made it one of my most used commands for me as of late:
curl cheat.sh/AnyLinuxCommand
to view tldr/cheat tipsAlso great for the weather via
curl wttr.in
Hopefully more commands utilize this technique
Thanks for the tip! I sometimes use the program
tldr
for this purpose.tldr is also baked into cheat.sh too! (But it’s redundant if you already have tldr/bro/etc installed probably)
Unfortunately wttr.in produces incorrect weather reports in many cities around the world
Did not know about this. Care to elaborate?
https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in/issues/854 and similar issues