Cheat

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.

Example Usage

Searching for all cheats that contain "git"

Note the fancy highlighting of search terms.

Installation

$ git clone git@github.com:torsten/cheat.git
$ ln -s path/to/cheat.rb ~/bin/cheat      # Assumes that ~/bin is in your $PATH

Usage

Searching

$ cheat [SEARCHTERM]

If SEARCHTERM is given, cheat lists only cheats that contain this term. Otherwise it will list all cheats.

Adding Cheats

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]