ExTldr

ExTldr is an Elixir client for tldr-pages. The following major improvements have been made from the original repo:

• Colorized output
• Caching

Requirement

• Erlang/OTP installed (it does not require Elixir, because Elixir is embedded in the script).
  • Read Erlang package from official repositories (Linux) to know about tested versions of Erlang available on some Linux distributions.
• Download ExTldr. You can:
  • Download the latest release.
  • Clone this repository.

Usage

Once you have downloaded ExTldr, and unzipped in the case you downloaded a release, you can execute the script: ./extldr

The first argument of the script is the operating system, the second argument is the command/term you want search. Below there are some examples:

• Search command feh in the pages of your current operating system:

  extldr feh

• Search Linux command adduser:

  extldr linux adduser

• Search a common command, chroot, in different operating system:

  extldr common chroot

• Search Linux command cat, available in common pages due it is available in different operating systems:

  extldr linux cat

Then, if you like, you can make it globally available with a symbolic link or adding it to your PATH.

Planned for next versions

Although I prefer to track possible enhancements and ideas in the issues, below there are some essentials:

• Multilingual support (#1).
• Check by default the operating system in which ExTldr is being executed (#2).

Inspiration

ExTldr is heavily inspired by the great and awesome work of the tldr-pages community and the actually archived TLDR Elixir Client developed by Eduardo Gurgel.

License

ExTldr is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.