NInikisweeting·Jul 23, 2018
Cheat (not Cheat.sh) doesn't require any admin permissions to install (with homebrew at least) https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat
In Devhints: A collection of developer cheatsheetschrisallenlane
cheat
Command Line2013–2018
chrisallenlane / cheat · Archived
cheat
cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.
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What it is
cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.
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Observed mentions: 2013-08-18 10:49:01 UTC to 2018-07-23 10:40:17 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
9 sourcesNot very respectful of https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat to use the same name.
The original cheat does exactly the same thing, has a big following and more stars, and has existed for years.
I've opened an issue re: the name conflict https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh/issues/34
Afaik these are the big players in the space:
- bro: https://github.com/hubsmoke/bro
- tldr: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
- cheat: https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat
In Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositoriesCheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on Linux
3 points · Open discussionWhat about https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat ?
In TLDR pagesI've used https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat for something similar to this as well. Do you know how the work flow differs?
In Eg: Never forget a command again--now with ColorI use "cheat" to help with less-used options for *NIX commands, probably similar to what you're doing. You create a separate "cheat sheet" for each command (7z, ant, etc.) and then "cheat 7z" dumps it to the console so you can cut-and-paste what you need.
https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat
In Keeping Personal Cheat Sheets as a Software EngineerCreate and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line.
2 points · Open discussionIt looks similar to https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat
In Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples onlyCheat: interactive cheatsheets on the command-line
3 points · Open discussion