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tldr is a collection of simplified and community-driven man pages.

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 in the TLDR article on Wikipedia.

New to the command-line world? Or just a little rusty? Or perhaps you can't always remember the arguments to lsof, or tar?

Maybe it doesn't help that the first option explained in man tar is:

-b blocksize
   Specify the block size, in 512-byte records, for tape drive I/O.
   As a rule, this argument is only needed when reading from or writing to tape drives,
   and usually not even then as the default block size of 20 records (10240 bytes) is very common.

Surely people could benefit from simplified "show me the common usages" man pages. What about:

This repository is just that: an ever-growing collection of examples for the most common UNIX / Linux / OSX / SunOS commands.

You can access these pages on your computer using one of the following clients:

• Node.js client : npm install -g tldr
• Python clients:
  • tldr-python-client : pip install tldr
  • tldr.py: pip install tldr.py
• Go client: go get github.com/pranavraja/tldr (or platform binaries)
• Elixir client (binaries not yet available)
• C++ client: brew tap tldr-pages/tldr && brew install tldr
• Android clients:
  • tldr-viewer, available on Google Play
  • tldroid, available on Google Play
• Ruby client: gem install tldrb
• R client: devtools::install_github('kirillseva/tldrrr')
• Dart client: pub global activate tldr
• Web client: https://ostera.github.io/tldr.jsx

Let us know if you are building one and we can add it to this list!

• Your favourite command isn't covered?
• You can think of more examples for an existing command?

Contributions are most welcome! Have a look at the contributing guidelines and go ahead!