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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. It originates in Internet slang, where it is used to indicate parts of the text skipped as too lengthy. Read more on [TLDR page from Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TL;DR).
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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, like me, you can't always remember the arguments to `lsof` or `tar`?
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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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@@ -26,11 +28,13 @@ Maybe it doesn't help that the first option explained in `man tar` is:
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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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-I'm sure people could benefit from simplified "show me the common usages" man pages. What about:
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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: an ever-growing collection of examples for the most common UNIX / Linux / OSX / SunOS commands.
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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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- [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` or [platform binaries](https://github.com/pranavraja/tldr/releases)
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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 [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.gianasista.tldr_viewer)
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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 [here](https://ostera.github.io/tldr.js)!
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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?
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+- You can think of more examples for an existing command?
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-Contribution are most welcome! Have a look here for some rough [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
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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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