Utilities

Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet

Last Updated on May 22, 2022

Summary

What we love about cheat.sh and its command-line interface (cht.sh) is that it doesn’t seek to reinvent the wheel. The project focuses its efforts on the creation of a unified mechanism to access selected existing well developed and good maintained cheat sheet repositories covering programming and operating systems usage. What is lacking is access to the documentation repositories of software projects.

You can also use cht.sh directly in text editors without opening a browser. Full functionality is reserved for Vim, but there’s also support for Emacs, Sublime, VSCode, and IDEA.

There’s other features that cht.sh offers which we’ve not covered in this review. Notable features include queries history, clipboard integration and tab completion support for bash, fish, and zsh.

It’s not possible to specify on the query a specific cheat sheet source to look after when there are multiple sources available. While a response shows the author and license details, we’d also like to see the date that an answer was composed.

cheat.sh has attracted a truly awesome 17,000+ GitHub stars. It’s one of the most popular open source projects hosted on GitHub.

Website: cheat.sh
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Igor Chubin
License: MIT License

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Operating System Commands & Stealth mode
Page 4 – Summary


Complete list of articles in this series:

Excellent Utilities
AES CryptEncrypt files using the Advanced Encryption Standard
AnanicyShell daemon created to manage processes’ IO and CPU priorities
brootNext gen tree explorer and customizable launcher
CerebroFast application launcher
cheat.shCommunity driven unified cheat sheet
CopyQAdvanced clipboard manager
crocSecurely transfer files and folders from the command-line
DeskreenLive streaming your desktop to a web browser
dufDisk usage utility with more polished presentation than the classic df
ezaA turbo-charged alternative to the venerable ls command
Extension ManagerBrowse, install and manage GNOME Shell Extensions
fdWonderful alternative to the venerable find
fkillKill processes quick and easy
fontpreviewQuickly search and preview fonts
horcruxFile splitter with encryption and redundancy
KoohaSimple screen recorder
KOReaderDocument viewer for a wide variety of file formats
ImagineA simple yet effective image optimization tool
LanguageToolStyle and grammar checker for 30+ languages
Liquid PromptAdaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
lnavAdvanced log file viewer for the small-scale; great for troubleshooting
lsdLike exa, lsd is a turbo-charged alternative to ls
Mark TextSimple and elegant Markdown editor
McFlyNavigate through your bash shell history
mdlessFormatted and highlighted view of Markdown files
notiMonitors a command or process and triggers a notification
NushellFlexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel
nvitopGPU process management for NVIDIA graphics cards
OCRmyPDFAdd OCR text layer to scanned PDFs
Oh My ZshFramework to manage your Zsh configuration
PaperworkDesigned to simplify the management of your paperwork
pastelGenerate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
PDF Mix ToolPerform common editing operations on PDF files
pecoSimple interactive filtering tool that's remarkably useful
ripgrepRecursively search directories for a regex pattern
RnoteSketch and take handwritten notes
scrcpyDisplay and control Android devices
StickySimulates the traditional “sticky note” style stationery on your desktop
tldrSimplified and community-driven man pages
tmuxA terminal multiplexer that offers a massive boost to your workflow
TuskAn unofficial Evernote client with bags of potential
UlauncherSublime application launcher
WatsonTrack the time spent on projects
Whoogle SearchSelf-hosted and privacy-focused metasearch engine
ZellijTerminal workspace with batteries included
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Hamish Steele
Hamish Steele
2 years ago

cheat.sh rocks.