tldr-pages

tldr-pages is a collaborative community project that provides simplified, community-driven man pages with practical examples for over 11,000 command-line tools. With over 52,500 stars as of 2026, tldr is one of the most popular open-source documentation projects, addressing the common frustration that traditional man pages are often verbose, comprehensive references that are difficult to use as quick lookup tools. Each tldr page follows a consistent format: a brief description of the command, followed by 5-8 of the most common usage examples with explanations, formatted in Markdown. For example, the page for tar shows 'tar cf {{target.tar}} {{file1}} {{file2}}' with the description 'Create an archive', and 'tar xf {{source.tar}}' with 'Extract an archive'. Pages are written in Markdown and stored in a version-controlled repository organized by operating system (common, linux, osx, windows, sunos, android), enabling platform-specific command variants. The project provides multiple client implementations: the original Node.js client (npm install -g tldr), a Rust client (tealdeer), a Python client (tldr-python-client), Go clients, C clients, and shell function-based clients. The clients download and cache pages locally, support offline access, automatic updates, colorized output, fuzzy search for finding commands, and platform detection to show relevant commands. The project maintains a translation effort with pages available in over 20 languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Russian, and Arabic. Licensed under MIT.