brettdaniel / explain (http://brettdaniel.com/archives/2009/11/07/035711/)

explain is a Unix/Linux utility that prints short documentation for a given command string, including the documentation for the arguments passed to the command. Output is derived from the command's man page. See http://www.brettdaniel.com/archives/2009/11/07/... for motivation and examples.

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Shortlog (showing r45:148daf706535 (tip) → r21:07094b0270b3)

Age Author Message A M D «
3 months Brett Daniel Added tag explain_0.0.2 for changeset f79bce8074bb 1
3 months Brett Daniel Refactoring and documentation 4
3 months Brett Daniel java -Xmx 1
3 months Brett Daniel TODOs 3
3 months Brett Daniel fix bug when a flag is on a new line a description 2
3 months Brett Daniel Real commands 1 3
3 months Brett Daniel match flags in different ways: exact match, substring, and split-compacted 3
3 months Brett Daniel Improved parsing. 3
4 months Brett Daniel Some bug-revealing tests 1
4 months Brett Daniel fix starts-with bug (artifact of earlier version) 2
4 months Brett Daniel More Pythonic _filter_flags 1
4 months Brett Daniel Mention Python 3.x in INSTALL 1
4 months Brett Daniel Added tag explain_0.0.1 for changeset c95a495b887a 1
4 months Brett Daniel compacted flags (e.g. ls -alF) 3
4 months Brett Daniel Repeated flags 2
5 months Brett Daniel Clean up documentation 1
5 months Brett Daniel Only copy entry point to lib 1
5 months Brett Daniel License and copyright 1 3
5 months Brett Daniel Small changes to INSTALL 1
5 months Brett Daniel Ignore multiline synonyms for now 1
5 months Brett Daniel Handle nonexistent man 1
5 months Brett Daniel installation instructions 1 1
5 months Brett Daniel TODOs 1
5 months Brett Daniel Some more special cases 2
5 months Brett Daniel more tests pass 2