Okay… while I am not a huge CLI buff (I’m getting there… ), I know that this has “new future fancy command line utility” all over it.
These guys over at Cheat have ingeniously put wiki support into the common CLI. While it’s new (and thus experimental) I’ve really found this a joy. You can grab stuff that’s not caught on a –help call, but is nestled too deep in a manpage/infopage to be worthwhile searching. And by grab, I mean grep.
The nice thing about it is how easily you can edit and update the pages. What I hope for in the future is that this’ll have more ‘wiki’ like features. That means linking cheatsheets and allowing terms in a cheat sheet to have pages written up on them.
Also, there’s no real… ’security’
Like, I saw a typo in the cheatsheet for bash, so I edited it (for guffaws, I thought), and lo and behold, it sent the update to the main website. egad! So, I am assuming they’ll hopefully put security up soon if it becomes big. Either way, this is puh-puh-powerrrrrful.
And it seems everyone using it is rather terse and in general these tidbits save a lot of time.
Eventually they should also put up separate page version depending on your architecture (case in point, because I have darwin right now, I’m not exactly… ahem… going to use all the same commands)
