Get a Summarized version of man pages

I rarely use the man pages because it's way quicker to google for the syntax of a command or for a specific flag than go through a large volume of information that you most likely don't need

However I found a package that summarizes the output of the man pages and offers a simpler alternative - tldr

In order to use it all you have to do is install it via npm:

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npm install -g tldr

Then in your command line type tldr <command>:

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tldr ls

The output shows ls - List directory contents. and the most commonly used flags with the ls command and their purpose, i.e.:

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- List files one per line:
  ls -1

- List all files, including hidden files:
  ls -a

- List all files, with trailing / added to directory names:
  ls -F

...etc

This saves me a lot of time having to parse through the verbose man pages.