cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.

cheat depends only on python and pip.

This version is a fork from chrisallenlane/cheat.

The fork was originally intended to change the output coloring to highlight markdown, but ended up as a major rewrite for no good reason.

The last version from chrisallenlane can be fetched from PyPI:

pip install git+https://github.com/fredrikhl/cheat.git#egg=cheat

usage: cheat [-h] [-l] [-d] [-v] [-e CHEATSHEET | -s KEYWORD | CHEATSHEET]

positional arguments:
  CHEATSHEET            Show the cheat sheet named 'CHEATSHEET'.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l, --list            List existing cheat sheets and exit.
  -d, --directories     List cheat sheet directories and exit.
  -v, --version         Print version and exit.
  -e CHEATSHEET, --edit CHEATSHEET
                        Edit a cheat sheet CHEATSHEET.
  -s KEYWORD, --search KEYWORD
                        Search cheat sheets for KEYWORD.

The following environment variables affect how cheat works:

Setting the CHEATCOLORS environment variable enables syntax highlighting of cheat sheets.

If a cheat sheet has a file extension, that extension will be used to select langauge for syntax highlighting.

If no syntax highlighter can be found for the cheat sheet (e.g. no file extension), the default syntax highlighter will be used. If CHEATCOLORS is set to a valid language, that language will be used as default.

Example:

# Use 'bash' syntax highlighting
export CHEATCOLORS="bash"

# Enable syntax highlighting without specifying a default language (will
# assume 'markdown')
export CHEATCOLORS=1

Override the default location for installed cheat sheets.

If this environment variable is set to a non-existing location, the default cheat sheets will be disabled. Otherwise, this environment variable can be used to set the location of the cheat sheets if some alternate install has been done.

Example:

# Disable default cheat sheets
export DEFAULT_CHEAT_DIR=""

# Change location fo default cheat sheets
export DEFAULT_CHEAT_DIR="/path/to/my/cheatsheets"

Extra locations for cheat sheets.

Multiple colon-separated paths can be given.

Cheat sheets found on the CHEATPATH will override cheat sheets found in ~/.cheat and the default cheat sheets (DEFAULT_CHEAT_DIR).

Example:

# Add two cheat paths
export CHEATPATH="/my/first/set:/my/second/set"

# Note: /my/second/set will override /my/first/set in the example. If
# both directories have a cheat sheet for `foo`, the version found in
# /my/second/set is used by cheat.

cheat depends on an editor being set in your shell when editing cheat sheets.

Example:

export EDITOR=vim

If the cheat sheet that is being edited exists only in the default cheat dir, or if you don't have write access to the cheat sheet, a copy will be made in the first writeable search path for cheat.