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Using curl as a substitute for man/help has made it one of my most used commands for me as of late:
curl cheat.sh/AnyLinuxCommandto view tldr/cheat tipsAlso great for the weather via
curl wttr.inHopefully more commands utilize this technique
Thanks for the tip! I sometimes use the program
tldrfor this purpose.tldr is also baked into cheat.sh too! (But it's redundant if you already have tldr/bro/etc installed probably)
Unfortunately wttr.in produces incorrect weather reports in many cities around the world
Did not know about this. Care to elaborate?
https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in/issues/854 and similar issues