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tldr shows short, example-driven help pages for command-line tools, written by the community. A manual page lists every option; tldr gives you the handful of invocations people actually use. Reach for it when the common flags have slipped your mind.
Install it
pkg install tldr
Run this inside Termux. If the package is already present, pkg will say so and
do nothing.
Commands worth knowing
5 of the invocations you will actually reach for. Tap the copy button to put one on your clipboard.
tldr tar Show the common uses of the tar archiver. Covers creating and unpacking archives. tldr -u tar Update the cached pages from the community repository before reading. You get the latest examples. tldr -l List every page cached locally. See what is available offline. tldr -p Render the page for the current platform only. Hides examples that do not apply here. tldr -L en tar Read the page in a specific language when translations are available. Worked example
Run tldr df and this is what you should see.
$ tldr df
# df
> Gives an overview of the filesystem disk space usage.
- Display all filesystems and their disk usage:
df
- Display usage in a human readable format:
df -h Developed by
tldr-pages contributors .