NAME

       cht.sh - The only cheat sheet you need (command line client for cheat.sh)

SYNOPSIS

       cht.sh [OPTIONS|QUERY]

DESCRIPTION

       The cheat.sh service:

              •  Covers  56  programming  languages,  several  DBMSes,  and  more  than 1000 most
                 important UNIX/Linux commands.

              •  Provides access to the best community driven cheat sheets  repositories  in  the
                 world, on par with StackOverflow.

       The  cheat.sh  service  has  its  own command line client (cht.sh) that has several useful
       features compared to querying the service directly with curl:

              •  Special shell mode with a persistent queries context and readline support.

              •  Queries history.

              •  Clipboard integration.

              •  Tab completion support for shells (bash, fish, zsh).

              •  Stealth mode.

OPTIONS

       QUERY  process QUERY and exit.

       --help print help.

       --shell [LANG]
              shell mode (open LANG if specified).

       --standalone-install [DIR|help]
              install cheat.sh in the standalone mode (by default, into ~/.cheat.sh/).

       --mode [auto|lite]
              set (or display) mode of operation:

              •  auto - prefer the local installation

              •  lite - use the cheat sheet server

EXAMPLES

       Now, you can use cht.sh instead of curl, and write your queries in more natural way,  with
       spaces instead of +:

           $ cht.sh go reverse a list
           $ cht.sh python random list elements
           $ cht.sh js parse json

       It is even more convenient to start the client in a special shell mode:

           $ cht.sh --shell
           cht.sh> go reverse a list

       If  all  your  queries  are  about the same language, you can change the context and spare
       repeating the programming language name:

           $ cht.sh --shell
           cht.sh> cd go
           cht.sh/go> reverse a list

       or even start the client in this context:

           $ cht.sh --shell go
           cht.sh/go> reverse a list
           ...
           cht.sh/go> join a list
           ...

       If you want to change the context, you can do it with the cd command, or if you want do  a
       single query for some other language, just prepend it with /:

           $ cht.sh --shell go
           ...
           cht.sh/go> /python dictionary comprehension
           ...

       If  you want to copy the last answer into the clipboard, you can use the c (copy) command,
       or C (ccopy, without comments).

           cht.sh/python> append file
           #  python - How do you append to a file?

           with open("test.txt", "a") as myfile:
               myfile.write("appended text")
           cht.sh/python> C
           copy: 2 lines copied to the selection

       Type help for other internal cht.sh commands.

               cht.sh> help
               help    - show this help
               hush    - do not show the 'help' string at start anymore
               cd LANG - change the language context
               copy    - copy the last answer in the clipboard (aliases: yank, y, c)
               ccopy   - copy the last answer w/o comments (cut comments; aliases: cc, Y, C)
               exit    - exit the cheat shell (aliases: quit, ^D)
               id [ID] - set/show an unique session id ("reset" to reset, "remove" to remove)
               stealth - stealth mode (automatic queries for selected text)
               update  - self update (only if the scriptfile is writeable)
               version - show current cht.sh version
               /:help  - service help
               QUERY   - space separated query staring (examples are below)
                                         cht.sh> python zip list
                                         cht.sh/python> zip list
                                         cht.sh/go> /python zip list

AUTHOR

       The cht.sh was written by Igor Chubin <igor@chub.in>.

       This manual page was written by Thiago Marques Siqueira  <thiagoms.15@gmail.com>  for  the
       Debian project (but may be used by others).

                                        23 September 2023                               cht.sh(1)