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Find, adapt and copy the right shell command in under 10 seconds.

GrepMeIfYouCan is a search engine for the shell commands Linux, infrastructure and DevOps engineers use every day. Search in plain words, edit the highlighted values, copy. Every command has a danger level, and destructive ones ask for a confirmation before the first copy.

Commands adapted from tldr-pages

Many commands are adapted from tldr-pages, a collection of simplified and community-driven man pages by the tldr-pages contributors, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Each adapted command links to its tldr-pages source page. Changes made: each example became its own card, with a new title and description, editable values and a danger level.

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This command can permanently delete data. Check every value before running it.

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/ or Ctrl K or ⌘ K
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Copy the selected command
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Edit the values of the selected command
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Values you edit carry over to the same value of the other commands, except on destructive commands, where they are always typed by hand.