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On: Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

[shellsteady]

SS64 is excellent—encyclopedic and battle-tested. Greppers is intentionally “copy-first”: a few opinionated, ready-to-paste incantations with flags I actually use at 1am, plus instant search and linkable queries.

I’m adding lightweight “More info” links on each card (SS64, man7, tldr) so folks can jump from the quick copy to the deep docs. If you’ve got specific SS64 pages you consider must-reads for certain commands, drop them and I’ll wire those in first.

On: Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

[shellsteady]

Good call. I moved the “Help grow the community!” banner below the results and collapsed it on mobile so it doesn’t crowd search. Thanks for the heads-up—refresh and it should feel a lot cleaner.

On: Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

[shellsteady]

Great comment, and it’s a nice on-ramp to add rsync properly.

Paste-ready reply for HN

Good call. I just added a handful of rsync recipes: • rsync -avh --progress SRC/ DEST/ (archive, human sizes, progress) • rsync -azP -e ssh SRC/ user@host:/path/ (SSH, compress, resume) • rsync -avh --delete SRC/ DEST/ (mirror with delete — ) • rsync -avh --checksum SRC/ DEST/ (checksum verify; slower) • rsync -avh --exclude='.git' --exclude='node_modules' SRC/ DEST/ (exclude patterns) • rsync -azP --bwlimit=2m -e ssh … (bandwidth limit) • bonus mnemonic: rsync -mrchivas … → m prune-empty, r recursive, c checksum, h human, i itemize, v verbose, a archive, s safe (note: -a already implies -r, and -c slows it down)

If there’s a specific rsync you reach for, drop it and I’ll add it too.

[foreslion → shellsteady]

You left the LLM response in the second paragraph.

On: Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

[shellsteady]

Great pointer—love tldr. Greppers is a different slice: • Copy-first & tiny: one or two opinionated incantations with sensible flags, not an exhaustive page. • Instant search & links: live filtering, ?q= deep links, favorites (local), and keyboard nav; easy to share a specific query. • Curation over coverage: mixes cross-tool “recipes” (e.g., lsof + networking, systemd log views) rather than a page per command. • Safety: “dangerous” commands prompt before copying.

They’re complementary: tldr is a great reference with multiple examples per command; Greppers is for the 2–3 commands you re-google at 1am with the exact flags you want to copy. If there’s a command where the tldr example is clearly better, I’ll happily mirror it or link out.

[kiitos → shellsteady]

huh?

there is no concept of any single "default incantation" of any command -- every command always has multiple "incantations" depending on what you want to do with it

nobody would ever directly copy and execute any "exact flags" for any command based on a query string, surely this is not what you are suggesting?

I can get on board with a tool that's like tldr but broader-scoped, returning sets of commands that you could choose to run based on input query, but isn't this just claude?

[anon7000 → kiitos]

That’s exactly what this is though, it’s giving you the precise “incantation” you need based on what you’re trying to do. Like “list 20 biggest files in current directory”

[shellsteady → anon7000]

well said that’s exactly the spirit of greppers — not trying to guess like an llm, just surfacing the ready-to-run incantations people keep re-googling.

[kiitos → anon7000]

huh? "list 20 biggest files in the current directory" is a search query, or a llm prompt input, it's not any kind of precise incantation.. ?

I mean if greppers is just translating queries like that to related command-calls, that's fine but bizarre and nothing that would require a community-contribution-based database of mappings, that's just a search engine and/or llm mapping problem...

On: Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

[shellsteady]

Thanks for the heads-up. I pushed a fix so the Copy button pulls from the data model (not DOM) and added a clipboard fallback for stricter browsers. Can you try a hard refresh and see if it still truncates?

If it still reproduces for them, we’ll grab their FF version and distro, but this should squash the “grep ” symptom.

On: Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

[shellsteady]

Thanks! A full CLI is on my list, but you can use Greppers as a terminal app today with fzf:

   # add to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc
   gpr() {
     curl -fsSL https://www.greppers.com/data/commands.json |
       jq -r '.[] | [.title, .command, (.tags|join(","))] | @tsv' |
       fzf --with-nth=1,3 --delimiter='\t' \
           --header='type to filter • Enter=copy' \
           --preview='printf "⟪ %s ⟫\n\n%s\n" {1} {2}' \
           --bind 'enter:execute-silent(echo -n {2} | (pbcopy || xclip -selection clipboard || wl-copy || xsel -ib || clip.exe))+accept'
  }
  # usage: run `gpr`, type to filter, Enter copies the command

On: Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

[shellsteady]

Tech notes: static site on Netlify, no build system. Data is a JSON file; favorites persist via localStorage. Search is client-side; queries are linkable with ?q= and you can filter favorites with fav=1. Dangerous commands show a confirm before copying. Headers (HSTS, nosniff) + sitemap/robots are set.

Planned next: more commands/recipes (docker, systemctl, networking), offline PWA, and a simple import/export for favorites.

If something’s obviously missing, drop it here or via the form: https://www.greppers.com/submit.html

[dang → shellsteady]

I've added this to the text at the top, so more people will see it.

Btw - if you're replying to other commenters, can you do so by clicking the 'reply' link at the end of their comment? That will place your response underneath the comment you're referencing, which will make the thread much more readable.

Currently, your comments are all going to the top level, where it's hard to connect them with the other posts you're replying to. I'm going to try to move them manually to the right places, but it's not clear what those are!