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================================================================================ hint | version 1.00 | GPL v3 (see LICENSE) | 2017-04-28 Ilikelinux | https://twitter.com/Ilikelinux69 ================================================================================ TOC: 1. What is this? 2. Install / Uninstall 3. How do I use it? 4. Who made it? 1. What is this? 'hint' is a cheat-sheet script for people who are too impatient to browse the manual page for a given program. It's well-suited for those who might use a program only occasionally, and need only brief reminders on the 'important bits'; the cliff-notes version of man pages, if you will. This particular version, written as a Bash script, is a reimplementation of a Python script originally written by Chris Lane. The other version is the 'main' version; this is the off-shoot. The main difference between 'hint' & 'cheat' should be that you should be able to browse it online on a github/jekyll page beside a blog (sinc with cronjob). 2. Install / Uninstall To install this script, as root, run 'make install' from inside the top directory to which you've downloaded/extracted the program; it should be the same directory where you found this README file. To uninstall the program, as root and from that same directory (or whichever directory contains the Makefile), run 'make uninstall'. 3. How do I use it? Using this script is straightforward enough, in the typical UNIX/Linux fashion: hint [OPTION] FILE[S] Options: -a or --add: Add a text file to the hint directory -A: Add and compress (gzip) a text file -e or --edit: Edit a hint, using editor in $EDITOR variable -k: Grep for keyword(s) in file names -g: Grep for keyword(s) inside file text -G: Same as above, but list full paths if found -l or --link: Link a file instead of copying it to the hint dir -L: List all hints with full paths -h or --help: List the help --version: List version and author info -u or --update: Update hint (safe way) -U: Overwrite all hints with downloaded versions Examples: hint ap: List all files with 'ap' in the filename; if there is only one result, it will be displayed hint -k: List all available hints (in ~/.hint) hint -k tar: Grep for all hints with 'tar' in the filename hint -k tar sh: Grep for hints with 'tar' or 'sh' in filenames hint -a foo: Add 'foo' to the hint directory hint -a foo bar: Add both 'foo' and 'bar' to the hint dir hint -A *.txt: Add and compress all .txt files in current dir hint -l foo.png Create a link to foo.png in the cheat directory There are a few useful variables for people who use this script a lot: DEFAULT_CHEAT_DIR, CHEATPATH, CHEAT_TEXT_VIEWER, CHEAT_IMAGE_VIEWER and CHEAT_PDF_VIEWER. DEFAULT_CHEAT_DIR is the directory in which cheat sheets are stored by default. This is set to $HOME/.cheat if left unspecified by the user. CHEATPATH is similar to the PATH variable, except it's used for cheat sheets. If you're referencing cheat sheets from multiple directories, you'll want to make use of this environment variable. If this variable is not set by the user, it's populated by DEFAULT_CHEAT_DIR. If the user does set this variable, it's up to them to include every directory in which cheat sheets are kept, as DEFAULT_CHEAT_DIR is not automatically added to the CHEATPATH variable. CHEAT_TEXT_VIEWER is the program used to view the normal cheat sheets. It's assumed to accept text from stdin ('cat' and 'less' are good options). 'cat' is used by default. CHEAT_IMAGE_VIEWER is the program which is used to display image files, and CHEAT_PDF_VIEWER is the program which will display PDFs. These variables are optional, but if you can't get the script to display images/PDFs, set them to the programs you want. 4. Who made it? Adapted version (hint): Ilikelinux alias luciano S. https://twitter.com/Ilikelinux69 Forked version: James Hendrie hendrie.james@gmail.com https://github.com/jahendrie/cheat Main version: Chris Lane chris@chris-allen-lane.com https://github.com/chrisallenlane
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