wat Alternatives

wat is described as 'Comprehensive tool designed to provide detailed information about various elements within your Linux system. This utility is capable of delivering insights on a wide range of components including executables, services, bash built-ins, packages, as well as files and' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are seven alternatives to wat for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Web-based, Windows and Android apps. The best wat alternative is TLDR pages, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like wat are cheat.sh, tealdeer, Linux man-pages and qman.

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  1. TLDR pages icon
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    The TLDR pages are a community effort to simplify the beloved man pages with practical examples.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • TLDR pages is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to wat.

    • TLDR pages is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to wat.

    • TLDR pages is Free and Open Sourcewat is also Free and Open Source
    • TLDR pages is Privacy focused and Lightweightwat is not according to our users
  2. cheat.sh icon
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    The only cheat sheet you need Unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world.

    9 cheat.sh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Terminal
    • explainshell
    • Hyper
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
     
  3. tealdeer icon
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    Fast implementation of tldr pages in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
     
    • tealdeer is the most popular Android alternative to wat.

    • tealdeer is Free and Open Sourcewat is also Free and Open Source
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    The Linux man-pages project documents the Linux kernel and C library interfaces that are employed by user-space programs. This package contains over 1,900 man pages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5.  1 like
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    A more modern man page viewer for our terminals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Mac
     
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    The archive for man pages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. cheat icon
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    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.

    13 cheat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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