cheat helps you to recall uncommon shell commands. cheat is super easy to extend
and completely self-contained, all code and data is in one Ruby file.
Searching for all cheats that contain "git"
Note the fancy highlighting of search terms.
$ git clone [email protected]:torsten/cheat.git
$ ln -s path/to/cheat.rb ~/bin/cheat # Assumes that ~/bin is in your $PATH
$ cheat [SEARCHTERM]
If SEARCHTERM is given, cheat lists only cheats that contain this term.
Otherwise it will list all cheats.
$ `cheat foo`
If there is exactly one cheat matching cheat, cheat will print just the contents so that the backticks can execute the cheat. Thanks @i0rek for suggesting this feature.
Adding new cheats is as simple as opening cheat and adding new entries at the
end of the file:
$ $EDITOR ~/bin/cheat
Cheats must have a title and content. All content between two titles counts towards the previous cheat. This is an example of a multi-line cheat:
Showing extended file attributes:
ls -@ video.m4v
-rw-r--r--@ 1 torsten staff 2.7M Nov 17 00:34 video.m4v
com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms 157B
xattr -p com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms video.m4v
[Next title starts here]
[Next cheat content goes here]