On FF Linux, when I click on a copy command (e.g. `Grep errors in syslog`, the clipboard only contains "grep ", including those two spaces.
If it still reproduces for them, we’ll grab their FF version and distro, but this should squash the “grep ” symptom.
Simon Sheppard's CLI Command notes and forums* - https://ss64.com/
* Now regrettably read-only thanks to the UK safety Act: https://ss64.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=587
I’m adding lightweight “More info” links on each card (SS64, man7, tldr) so folks can jump from the quick copy to the deep docs. If you’ve got specific SS64 pages you consider must-reads for certain commands, drop them and I’ll wire those in first.
The most memorable args for me are `-mrchivas`, because together they sound somewhat like a name (“Mister Chivas”)
(I drop the -a depending on whether archive is needed, Mr. Chivs sounds fun too)
Paste-ready reply for HN
Good call. I just added a handful of rsync recipes: • rsync -avh --progress SRC/ DEST/ (archive, human sizes, progress) • rsync -azP -e ssh SRC/ user@host:/path/ (SSH, compress, resume) • rsync -avh --delete SRC/ DEST/ (mirror with delete — ) • rsync -avh --checksum SRC/ DEST/ (checksum verify; slower) • rsync -avh --exclude='.git' --exclude='node_modules' SRC/ DEST/ (exclude patterns) • rsync -azP --bwlimit=2m -e ssh … (bandwidth limit) • bonus mnemonic: rsync -mrchivas … → m prune-empty, r recursive, c checksum, h human, i itemize, v verbose, a archive, s safe (note: -a already implies -r, and -c slows it down)
If there’s a specific rsync you reach for, drop it and I’ll add it too.
I wonder if there is any kind of tool out there that might provide some fuzzy auto-suggestions in shell from a variety of sources like this.
One small nit: Recipes and Favorites seems to not work (at all)...on firefox 142.0.1 nor ungoogled chromium version 139.0.7258.154 - both via fedora 41. ;-)
# add to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc
gpr() {
curl -fsSL https://www.greppers.com/data/commands.json |
jq -r '.[] | [.title, .command, (.tags|join(","))] | @tsv' |
fzf --with-nth=1,3 --delimiter='\t' \
--header='type to filter • Enter=copy' \
--preview='printf "⟪ %s ⟫\n\n%s\n" {1} {2}' \
--bind 'enter:execute-silent(echo -n {2} | (pbcopy || xclip -selection clipboard || wl-copy || xsel -ib || clip.exe))+accept'
}
# usage: run `gpr`, type to filter, Enter copies the command
They’re complementary: tldr is a great reference with multiple examples per command; Greppers is for the 2–3 commands you re-google at 1am with the exact flags you want to copy. If there’s a command where the tldr example is clearly better, I’ll happily mirror it or link out.
there is no concept of any single "default incantation" of any command -- every command always has multiple "incantations" depending on what you want to do with it
nobody would ever directly copy and execute any "exact flags" for any command based on a query string, surely this is not what you are suggesting?
I can get on board with a tool that's like tldr but broader-scoped, returning sets of commands that you could choose to run based on input query, but isn't this just claude?
I mean if greppers is just translating queries like that to related command-calls, that's fine but bizarre and nothing that would require a community-contribution-based database of mappings, that's just a search engine and/or llm mapping problem...
Planned next: more commands/recipes (docker, systemctl, networking), offline PWA, and a simple import/export for favorites.
If something’s obviously missing, drop it here or via the form: https://www.greppers.com/submit.html
Btw - if you're replying to other commenters, can you do so by clicking the 'reply' link at the end of their comment? That will place your response underneath the comment you're referencing, which will make the thread much more readable.
Currently, your comments are all going to the top level, where it's hard to connect them with the other posts you're replying to. I'm going to try to move them manually to the right places, but it's not clear what those are!