If you’ve used a Unix system for any length of time you’ve probably read a man page or two. Right after opening your first man page you might have googled something along the lines of “How to search in a man page”. man pages are dense, detailed, documents.

On the other hand, cheat.sh provides a short, community curated cheat sheet for many popular commands (and programming languages) filled with examples.

However, the defacto interface to cheat.sh is curl - not very user friendly. This walks through my development process of creating a shell script that:

  • Filters cheat.sh endpoints using fzf.
  • Formats the curl request (both the url string and response data).
  • Create a key bind to call the script.
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