Paste a shell command to break it down flag-by-flag — including pipes and redirects — or browse a searchable cheatsheet of 40+ common Linux commands with real examples. Everything runs locally in your browser.
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{{ ex[0] }} {{ ex[1] }} This is an explainshell-style command parser plus a CLI cheatsheet, both running entirely in your browser — no man-page servers are contacted and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
The Explain tab tokenizes a command (respecting 'quotes' and "quotes"), splits it on pipes and operators like |, &&, ;, >, then annotates the command, each flag (including bundled short flags such as -xzvf and value-taking options like -name), and every operand.
The Cheatsheet tab covers 40+ everyday commands across files, search, permissions & users, archives, remote/transfer, networking, processes and text. Click Explain on any example to send it straight to the parser.
Coverage is a curated subset of the most-used flags, not a full man page. Always double-check destructive commands (rm, find -delete, dd) before running them.
