{"id":21640,"date":"2022-12-07T13:51:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/07\/how-to-use-cheat-sh-in-macos-terminal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:51:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:51:35","slug":"how-to-use-cheat-sh-in-macos-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/07\/how-to-use-cheat-sh-in-macos-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use cheat.sh in macOS Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Terminal can be complex, so it’s good that there’s a single online repository of cheat sheets for it that can give you more information. Here’s how to see it. <\/p>\n

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Igor Chubin<\/a> has created a Terminal-based online cheatsheet tool, called cheat.sh<\/a>. While mainly targeted at developers, the cheat.sh project also includes a huge worldwide user-contributed base of cheat sheets for general Terminal commands, databases, and other useful macOS<\/a> shortcuts. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While a little daunting to use at first for novice Terminal users, you’ll soon have the hang of it and wonder how you got along without it. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

How to use cheat.sh<\/h2>\n

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There are 2 ways to use cheat.sh. The first, and easiest is simply to type ‘curl’ in a Terminal window followed by “cheat.sh”, a slash, then a command or technology you want to look up. For example, to get full information on the UNIX tar command, in Terminal type curl cheat.sh\/tar<\/strong> and press Return<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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cheat.sh will respond with everything it knows about the tar command. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You can also get some examples of usage by typing curl cheat.sh<\/strong> and pressing Return<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The cheat.sh command uses the standard curl<\/a> downloader tool for most access. But it also has built-in intelligence and natural-language processing which makes searching for what you want easy too. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you don’t know the exact name of a command or technology, you can use cheat.sh’s search\/lookup simply by prepending a “~” to any word at the end of a command. For example curl cheat.sh\/~snapshot<\/strong> returns all info cheat.sh knows about how to take a system snapshot. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You can further refine searches by prefixing a keyword or command with a specific technology or language name as if accessing it by directory curl cheat.sh\/go\/Pointers<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For example returns all info cheat.sh knows about Pointers, but only for the go programming langauge. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Since most of the info returned is held in community-maintained cheat sheet databases, it’s highly likely what you’re looking for will be available. You can even add your own cheatsheet<\/a> for any particular topic, provided you follow cheat.sh’s guidelines. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You can view a list of all available cheat sheets on a topic by adding “:list” to the end of any query. For example curl cheat.sh\/go\/:list<\/strong> returns a list of all go programming topics in the cheat.sh system. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Command-line Client<\/h2>\n

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There is also a dedicated command-line client for cheat.sh, which requires 2 commands in the Terminal to install. You’ll need to have Homebrew<\/a> installed to run the first command. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After Homebrew is installed, type brew install rlwrap<\/strong> then press Return<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Next, to install the cheat.sh command-line tool for all users on your Mac<\/a>, in Terminal enter” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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curl -s https:\/\/cht.sh\/:cht.sh | sudo tee \/usr\/local\/bin\/cht.sh && sudo chmod +x \/usr\/local\/bin\/cht.sh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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As the documentation mentions: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A documentation Now you can use cht.sh instead of curl, and write your queries in more natural way. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There is also a complied binary (.exe) version of cheat.sh for Windows machines<\/a>. It’s also possible to install the entire cheat.sh system offline locally<\/a> on your computer, although doing so is fairly technical, and might be beyond the ability of casual users. If we get enough requests, we’ll cover it. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All-in-all cheat.sh is a valuable addition to your Terminal and tech knowledge. The ability to look up a command, or everything there is to know about a given technology in one place quickly is invaluable.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n