# tldr-bash-client

* version 0.46

### Bash client for tldr: community driven man-by-example
**A fully-functional [bash](https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html)
client for the [tldr](https://tldr.sh) project, providing
poignant examples of terminal commands.**

<img alt="tldr page gif" src="tldr-page.gif" title="tldr page" />

This client can render both the old and the new tldr markup format.

## Installation
Download the tldr bash script to the install location:

```bash
loc=/usr/local/bin/tldr  # elevated privileges needed for some locations
sudo wget -qO $loc https://4e4.win/tldr
sudo chmod +x $loc
```

If the location is not in $PATH, you need to specify the path to run it.

<img alt="tldr page screenshot" src="tldr-page.jpg" title="tldr page" width="600" />
<img alt="tldr usage screenshot" src="tldr-usage.jpg" title="tldr usage" width="600" />

### Prerequisites
coreutils, grep, unzip, curl / wget, less (optional)

<img alt="tldr search screenshot" src="tldr-search.jpg" title="tldr search" width="600" />

## Output customisation
<img alt="tldr customize screenshot" src="tldr-customize.jpg" title="tldr customize" width="600" />

The 5 elements in TLDR markup that can be styled with these colors and
backgrounds (last one specified will be used) and modes (more can apply):
* Colors: Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White
* BG: BlackBG, RedBG, GreenBG, YellowBG, BlueBG, MagentaBG, CyanBG, WhiteBG
* Modes: Bold, Underline, Italic, Inverse

`Newline` can be added to the style list to add a newline before the element
and `Space` to add a space at the start of the line
(style items are separated by space, lower/uppercase mixed allowed)
* TLDR_TITLE_STYLE (defaults to: Newline Space Bold Yellow)
* TLDR_DESCRIPTION_STYLE (defaults to: Space Yellow)
* TLDR_EXAMPLE_STYLE (defaults to: Newline Space Bold Green)
* TLDR_CODE_STYLE (defaults to: Space Bold Blue)
* TLDR_VALUE_ISTYLE (defaults to: Space Bold Cyan)

The Value style (above) is an Inline style: doesn't take Newline or Space

Inline styles for help text: default, URL, option, platform, command, header
* TLDR_DEFAULT_ISTYLE (defaults to: White)
* TLDR_URL_ISTYLE (defaults to: Yellow)
* TLDR_HEADER_ISTYLE (defaults to: Bold)
* TLDR_OPTION_ISTYLE (defaults to: Bold Yellow)
* TLDR_PLATFORM_ISTYLE (defaults to: Bold Blue)
* TLDR_COMMAND_ISTYLE (defaults to: Bold Cyan)
* TLDR_FILE_ISTYLE (defaults to: Bold Magenta)

Color/BG (Newline and Space also allowed) for error and info messages
* TLDR_ERROR_COLOR (defaults to: Newline Space Red)
* TLDR_INFO_COLOR (defaults to: Newline Space Green)

How many days before freshly downloading a potentially stale page
* TLDR_EXPIRY (defaults to 7)
Alternative location of pages cache
* TLDR_CACHE (not set by default)
Usage of 'less' or 'cat' for output (set to '0' for cat)
* TLDR_LESS (*1* by default; if set to *0* `cat` will be used)
Force current OS
* TLDR_OS (overrides what is read by `uname -s`)
Force preferred language: ISO639 format (2 lowercase letters)
* TLDR_LANG (not set by default, $LANG is used from environment)

<img alt="tldr list screenshot" src="tldr-list.jpg" title="tldr list" width="600" />

## Autocompletion
When the following lines are added to `~/.bashrc` or run in the current session,
then *tldr* will autocomplete, which means possible tldr page names will be
suggested when tapping the **Tab** key twice on an incomplete tldr page name:
```
cachedir=~/.local/share/tldr # Or whatever else the location of the tldr cache is
complete -W "$(q=($cachedir/*/*); sed 's@\.md @ @g' <<<${q[@]##*/})" tldr
```
<img alt="tldr new markdown screenshot" src="tldr-markdown-new.jpg" title="tldr new markdown" width="600" />

# tldr-lint

* version 0.11

### Linter for new syntax tldr source files

```
Usage: tldr-lint [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [-q|--quiet] [<dir>] [<file>]
          - All *.md files under <dir> and subdirectories are checked
          - <file> is checked regardless of extension
          -q, --quiet:    No output means check is OK
          -V, --version:  Display version
          -h, --help:     Display this help text
```
<img alt="tldr markdown screenshot" src="tldr-markdown.jpg" title="tldr markdown" width="600" />

### Prerequisites
coreutils, sed, grep, find

# Contributing

Please file an issue for a question, a bug or a feature request.
Or even better, send a pull request!

[tldr-bash-client gitlab page](http://gitlab.com/pepa65/tldr-bash-client "gitlab.com/pepa65/tldr-bash-client")

### License

Original tldr client in bash by Ray Lee http://github.com/raylee/tldr (MIT license)

The **tldr-bash-client** is relicensed under GPLv3+ and **tldr-lint** is GPLv3+ as well.