tldr-bash-client

version 0.3
https://github.com/pepa65/tldr-bash-client

Bash client for tldr: community driven man-by-example

A fully-functional bash client for the tldr project, providing poignant examples of terminal commands.

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

Installation

Download the tldr bash script to the install location:

location=/usr/local/bin/tldr  # elevated privileges needed for some locations
sudo wget -qO $location https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pepa65/tldr-bash-client/master/tldr
sudo chmod +x $location

If the location is not in $PATH, you need to specify the path to run it. Alternately, you can do sudo bpkg-install pepa65/tldr if you have bpkg installed.

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Prerequisites

coreutils, less, grep, unzip, curl / wget

Customisation

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: 60)

Alternative location of pages cache

TLDR_CACHE (not set by default)

Contributing

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

tldr-bash-client github page

License

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

Relicensed under GPLv3+

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