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* On 2021 29 May 15:04 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 05/29/2021 12:55 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > This may not be exactly what you're thinking of, but I saw this
> > referenced on Reddit recently:
> > 
> > 	curl cheat.sh/<command>
> > 
> > I just did it for 'curl cheat.sh/cp' which gives some examples including
> > from tldr.
> > 
> > - Nate
> > 
> 
> I'll have to reconfigure something on my system. Executing  'curl
> cheat.sh/cp' resulted in light grey text on white background ;/

Might have to take that up with the author of cheat.sh.  I use Linux
console colors in my terminals so gray text on a nearly black background
thus everything looks fine "here".

> The man page is, putting *mildly*, overwhelming. Is there a recommended
> introduction to curl.

Well, 'curl cheat.sh/curl' gives me several screens full of seemingly
useful examples.  I've not used curl much either, it's mostly installed
for some other tool on my system, as I recall.  I do use wget on
occasion.

- Nate

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examples for man pages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-29 15:50 +0200
  Re: examples for man pages "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-05-29 18:00 +0200
    Re: examples for man pages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-29 21:30 +0200
  Re: examples for man pages Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-05-29 19:00 +0200
    Re: examples for man pages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-29 21:40 +0200
  Re: examples for man pages Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-05-29 20:00 +0200
    Re: examples for man pages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-29 22:10 +0200
      Re: examples for man pages "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2021-05-29 22:30 +0200
        Re: examples for man pages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-30 15:50 +0200
      Re: examples for man pages Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-05-30 03:20 +0200
      Re: examples for man pages Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-05-30 22:30 +0200
        Re: examples for man pages Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-31 14:40 +0200
          Re: examples for man pages Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-05-31 16:50 +0200
            Re: examples for man pages Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-05-31 18:10 +0200

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