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I've recently started using Arch and their Pacman Rosetta has helped me a lot, it has equivalences in package managers for all the popular distros: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta

And the Rosetta Stone of Performance Checklists:

http://www.brendangregg.com/USEmethod/use-rosetta.html

Yeah I found this via HN a couple years ago. This along with the following links will help anyone getting into sysadmin work:

https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line | https://www.bento.io/grid | https://www.sqlteaching.com/

That project is a symptom of manual pages not having good “EXAMPLES” sections. The examples on that web page should be contributed upstream to the manuals pages of the software that they are for.

If you want a fast way to read the EXAMPLES section only for a command, here is a shell function which creates an ‘eg’ command which only displays the “EXAMPLES” section of manual pages:

  eg(){
      MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 man "$@" 2>/dev/null \
          | sed --quiet --expression='/^E\(\x08.\)X\(\x08.\)\?A\(\x08.\)\?M\(\x08.\)\?P\(\x08.\)\?L\(\x08.\)\?E/{:a;p;n;/^[^ ]/q;ba}' \
          | ${MANPAGER:-${PAGER:-pager -s}}
  }

Usage:

  $ eg tar
  EXAMPLES
       Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.
             tar -cf archive.tar foo bar
       List all files in archive.tar verbosely.
             tar -tvf archive.tar
       Extract all files from archive.tar.
             tar -xf archive.tar
  $

Damn, I remember the HN thread about that. The derailing was phenomenal. Interesting that the project lives on.

Although slightly different, Commandlinefu is a similar project with many number of entries: http://www.commandlinefu.com

It also has a terminal client called "fu": https://github.com/samirahmed/fu

just tried out to install bro pages with a fresh ruby 2.2.1 from rvm on OS X and got this reproducable. Seems broken for me:

    $ bro curl
    The curl command isn't in our database.

That's one the advantages of Rosetta Stone - http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

It was posted elsewhere in this thread first — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10023535 — so don't vote my comment up.

I love the "why not try this" attitude of your comment.

Is this due to an LB fronting?

On this system hostname -i says 127.0.1.1, despite this address not being set on any of my interfaces (lo0 is 127.0.0.1).

ip route get 8.8.8.8 | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f8

And instead you now need to know a layer of abstraction and relearn that layer whenever it re-invents itself.