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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: man

A Linux system comes with a whole collection of system reference manuals (known as man pages). There’s a man page for each command or program.

eg will give you useful examples right at the command line. Think of it as a companion tool for man.

bropages is a highly readable supplement to man pages. The CLI tool shows simple, concise examples for commands with syntax highlighting.

tlrc is a tldr client written in Rust. The tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools.

tldr.el is an tldr client for Emacs.You can use M-x tldr-update-docs to update docs. It’s written in Emacs Lisp.

tldr++ offers community driven man pages improved with smart user interaction. It’s written in the Go programming language.

cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. cheat is free and open source software written in Go.

tldr-python-client is a command-line client for tldr pages. This is free and open source software. It’s written in Python.

Tealdeer is a very fast implementation of tldr in Rust: Simplified, example based and community-driven man pages.