Simplified Manual Pages The standard set of manual pages (often called man pages) which are available in most flavours of Linux, BSD and Unix tend to be long and they can be cryptic. Manual pages tend to list what options are available without explaining why we might use them. Further, many manual pages do not provide examples.



The TLDR-pages project has compiled a collection of simplified manual pages which present commands with a clear explanation of what each command does and lists examples of how the command is most often used. These simplified pages are available below.



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hg-root hg-serve hg-status hg-update hg history hlint hn home-manager homeshick host hostapd hostess hostid hostname hostnamectl hping hr hsd-cli hsw-cli html5validator htop htpasswd http-prompt http http_load httpie httping hub hugo hwclock hydra hyperfine i3lock i7z iconv id id3tag identify if ifconfig ifdown iftop ifup ignite imapsync imgp import in2csv infection influx info initdb inkscape inkview inotify-wait install interdiff inxi ionic ionice ioping iostat iotop ip-address ip ipcalc ipcmk ipcrm ipcs iperf iperf3 ipfs iptables ipython irssi is-up isoinfo iverilog iw iwconfig jar jarsigner java javac javadoc jc jdupes jekyll jest jhat jhipster jigsaw jmap jobs john join journalctl jpegoptim jps jq jrnl json5 jstack julia jupyter jupytext jwt k6 k8s-unused-secret-detector k8sec kafkacat kaggle kahlan kak keepass2 kexec keybase kill killall knife kompose konsole kops kotlin kpackagetool5 kpartx ksh ksvgtopng5 kube-capacity kube-fzf kubeadm kubectl kubectx kubens kubetail kustomize 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