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# tldr
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[![Build Status][travis-image]][travis-url]
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[![Gitter chat][gitter-image]][gitter-url]
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[travis-url]: https://travis-ci.org/tldr-pages/tldr
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[travis-image]: https://img.shields.io/travis/tldr-pages/tldr.svg
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[gitter-url]: https://gitter.im/tldr-pages/tldr
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[gitter-image]: https://img.shields.io/gitter/room/tldr-pages/tldr.svg
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*tldr* is a collection of simplified and community-driven man pages.
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## What does tldr mean?
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TL;DR stands for "Too Long; Didn't Read".
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It originates in Internet slang, where it is used to indicate parts of the text skipped as too lengthy.
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Read more in the [TLDR article on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TL;DR).
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## What is tldr?
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New to the command-line world? Or just a little rusty?
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Or perhaps you can't always remember the arguments to `lsof`, or `tar`?
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Maybe it doesn't help that the first option explained in `man tar` is:
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```
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-b blocksize
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Specify the block size, in 512-byte records, for tape drive I/O.
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As a rule, this argument is only needed when reading from or writing to tape drives,
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and usually not even then as the default block size of 20 records (10240 bytes) is very common.
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```
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Surely people could benefit from simplified "show me the common usages" man pages. What about:
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This repository is just that:
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an ever-growing collection of examples
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for the most common UNIX / Linux / OSX / SunOS commands.
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## Clients
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You can access these pages on your computer using one of the following clients:
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- [Node.js client](https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-node-client) : `npm install -g tldr`
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- [Python client](https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-python-client) : `pip install tldr`
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- [Python client](https://github.com/lord63/tldr.py): `pip install tldr.py`
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- [Go client](https://github.com/pranavraja/tldr): `go get github.com/pranavraja/tldr`
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or [platform binaries](https://github.com/pranavraja/tldr/releases)
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- [Elixir client](https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr_elixir_client): binaries available soon
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- [C++ client](https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-cpp-client): `brew tap tldr-pages/tldr && brew install tldr`
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- [Android client](https://github.com/gianasista/tldr-viewer): available on
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[Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.gianasista.tldr_viewer)
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- [Ruby client](https://github.com/YellowApple/tldrb): `gem install tldrb`
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- [Web client](https://github.com/ostera/tldr.js): try tldr on your browser
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[here](https://ostera.github.io/tldr.js)!
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Let us know if you are building one and we can add it to this list!
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## Contributing
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- Your favourite command isn't covered?
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- You can think of more examples for an existing command?
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Contributions are most welcome!
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Have a look at the [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
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and go ahead!
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