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Shell tool examples in the terminal

Conclusions

Newcomers and power users alike will find eg to be a small but useful tool – because, let's be honest, virtually nobody can remember all of those commands and options. With eg, all it takes is a short command to call up explanations for around 80 tools that are far easier to follow than the actual man pages.

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eg: https://github.com/srsudar/eg

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