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Comment by no_gravity | Hacker News Reader

Instead of installing one of the clients, it might be easier to just put this line into your bash.rc:

    function tldr { curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tldr-pages/tldr/master/pages/common/$1.md; }

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Even better if you pipe it to a markdown renderer:

    function tldr() { curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tldr-pages/tldr/master/pages/common/"$1.md" | mad -; }

You can download `mad` at https://github.com/tj/mad.git

there's also linux/osx/.. pages; but I like the idea so here's some Powershell

  function tldr($what) {
    ("common", "linux") | foreach {
      try {
        (iwr raw.githubusercontent.com/tldr-pages/tldr/master/pages/$_/$what.md).Content
        return
      }
      catch{}
    }
  }

Internet access is not a given at all times. One is often more likely to need manuals when there is a problem with it.

Well to be fair, you can just use the man pages if you don't have network access. Or you could git clone the repo and print it from the repo. I think his point is that this is a problem that is easy to overengineer and really doesn't need that much work to be done.

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