tldr Command Examples

Display simple help pages for command-line tools from the tldr-pages project. Note: the --language and --list options are not required by the client specification, but most clients implement them. More information: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/main/CLIENT-SPECIFICATION.md#command-line-interface.

• Print the tldr page for a specific command (hint: this is how you got here!):

tldr {{command}}

• Print the tldr page for a specific subcommand:

tldr {{command}} {{subcommand}}

• Print the tldr page for a command in the given language (if available, otherwise fall back to English):

tldr {{[-L|--language]}} {{language_code}} {{command}}

• Print the tldr page for a command from a specific platform:

tldr {{[-p|--platform]}} {{android|common|freebsd|linux|osx|netbsd|openbsd|sunos|windows}} {{command}}

• Update the local cache of tldr pages:

tldr {{[-u|--update]}}

• List all pages for the current platform and common:

tldr {{[-l|--list]}}

• List all available subcommand pages for a command:

tldr {{[-l|--list]}} | grep {{command}} | column

• Print the tldr page for a random command:

tldr {{[-l|--list]}} | shuf {{[-n|--head-count]}} 1 | xargs tldr