# tldr-pages/tldr

Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands 📚.

Repository: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tldr
Homepage: https://tldr.sh
Language: Markdown
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: shell, man-page, tldr, documentation, terminal, command-line, console, examples, help, manual, hacktoberfest, cheatsheet, cheatsheets, android, bsd, linux, macos, osx, windows, cli
Last push: 2026-08-26T23:49:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4651, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 544, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 63491, forks 5386 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:19.158975+00:00)

## What it is
tldr-pages is a large community-maintained collection of simplified, example-focused help pages (cheatsheets) for command-line tools, written in Markdown. It serves as a practical, approachable complement to traditional man pages across UNIX, Linux, macOS, BSD, Android, and Windows commands.

## Use cases
- quickly look up how to use a command like tar or lsof with practical examples
- find the right command-line flags without reading long man pages
- learn command-line tools as a beginner
- recall syntax for commands I rarely use
- browse examples for Linux, macOS, or Windows console commands
- integrate simplified help pages into my own CLI client or tooling

## When to choose
- you need concise, example-driven help for common command-line tools
- you want community-maintained cheatsheets covering many platforms
- you are building a CLI help client and need a corpus of pages
- man pages are too verbose or intimidating for your needs

## When to avoid
- you need exhaustive, authoritative documentation of every flag and edge case
- you need offline help for obscure or proprietary commands not covered by the project
- you require formal API or library documentation rather than CLI usage examples

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, documentation
- platform: windows, bsd, cli, cross-platform
- tags: cheatsheets, man-pages, command-line-examples, community-maintained, markdown, command-line, linux, macos, android

## Member repositories
- tldr-pages/tldr (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:19.158975+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:17:26.874584+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:19.158975+00:00, sha 275992cbb746)
  - homepage: https://tldr.sh (fetched 2026-08-28T17:56:43.446255+00:00, sha 0dc857fc6dcd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.