tldr-pages is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools, presented as a simpler complement to traditional man pages. The repository holds examples for common UNIX, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS, Android, Windows, Cisco IOS and DOS command-line tools. Official clients are available for Python, Rust and Node.js.
A catalog of 134 alternative tools for the Linux, Unix and macOS command line. The site lists alternatives to common Unix utilities such as grep, ps, wc, dig and gzip, and shows recently added or updated tools with descriptions, languages and dates.
GNU Bash is the GNU Project's shell, an sh-compatible shell that incorporates features from the Korn shell and the C shell. It is intended to conform to the POSIX Shell and Tools standard and offers improvements over sh for programming and interactive use. Most sh scripts can run by Bash without modification. It includes command-line editing, job control, shell functions and aliases, and indexed arrays.
explainshell.com is a web tool that matches command-line arguments to their help text. Users write down a command line to see the help text that matches each argument. The page includes numerous shell command examples.
Claws Mail is an email client and news reader based on GTK+. It offers multiple accounts, threaded display, filtering and MIME attachments, plus Usenet news reading and posting, with SSL over POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1 and NNTP. Messages are managed in the standard MH format, and additional functionality is provided by plugins. It is distributed under the GPL.
KGet is a download manager for KDE. It downloads files from FTP and HTTP(S) sources, can pause and resume downloads, and integrates with the Konqueror web browser and the system tray. It also supports Metalink files containing multiple download URLs, checksums and other information.
Kitty is a GPU-based terminal emulator designed for power keyboard users, with all controls accessible via keyboard and full mouse support. It runs multiple programs in tabs and windows with tiling layouts, and its configuration is a single human-editable file. Written in C, Python, and Go, it uses OpenGL for rendering and supports modern terminal features such as Unicode and true color.
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A catalog of 134 alternative tools for the Linux, Unix and macOS command line. The site lists alternatives to common Unix utilities such as grep, ps, wc, dig and gzip, and shows recently added or updated tools with descriptions, languages and dates.
GNU Bash is the GNU Project's shell, an sh-compatible shell that incorporates features from the Korn shell and the C shell. It is intended to conform to the POSIX Shell and Tools standard and offers improvements over sh for programming and interactive use. Most sh scripts can run by Bash without modification. It includes command-line editing, job control, shell functions and aliases, and indexed arrays.
explainshell.com is a web tool that matches command-line arguments to their help text. Users write down a command line to see the help text that matches each argument. The page includes numerous shell command examples.
Claws Mail is an email client and news reader based on GTK+. It offers multiple accounts, threaded display, filtering and MIME attachments, plus Usenet news reading and posting, with SSL over POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1 and NNTP. Messages are managed in the standard MH format, and additional functionality is provided by plugins. It is distributed under the GPL.
KGet is a download manager for KDE. It downloads files from FTP and HTTP(S) sources, can pause and resume downloads, and integrates with the Konqueror web browser and the system tray. It also supports Metalink files containing multiple download URLs, checksums and other information.
Kitty is a GPU-based terminal emulator designed for power keyboard users, with all controls accessible via keyboard and full mouse support. It runs multiple programs in tabs and windows with tiling layouts, and its configuration is a single human-editable file. Written in C, Python, and Go, it uses OpenGL for rendering and supports modern terminal features such as Unicode and true color.
