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8 Best Free and Open Source API Documentation Browsers

April 20, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

Software developers need all the help possible. One useful tool is a documentation browser. In fact, they can sometimes be a life changer.

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Think outside the box

explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text

February 7, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

explainshell is a tool (with a web interface) which parses man pages, extracts options and explains a given command-line by matching each argument to the relevant help text in the man page.

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Documentation Generators

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Documentation Generators

October 12, 2023 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

A documentation generator is a programming tool that generates documentation intended for programmers and end users.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: tldr – simplified and community-driven man pages

July 14, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

The tldr project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet

October 21, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

cheat.sh offers unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world via curl/browser interface. There’s also an installable utility for more flexibility.

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