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213points
77comments
#252of 3,028 in 2020
Top 9%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

14 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 15 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Design: 6 for, 7 againstDocs: 1 for, 4 againstExecution: 2 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Well organized, compact and useful reference

    From 3 comments
    • Nicely organized and well done! Thank you. For all people like me addicted to this kind of reference websites full of information, check out http://hyperpolyglot.org/unix-shells…
      lgeorget on HN
    • Well done! For a first website, this is amazing. I can learn some bash from this site. Also, I want to say it was a pleasure (more relief, really - now 2020-02-13) to read the…
      I_complete_me on HN
    • Nice reference, compact and complete. My 2 cents: top menu goes away when you reduce window width; on mobile no menu at all (but content goes one column correctly, so halfway…
      calcar on HN
  • Nice design and color scheme

    From 2 comments
    • I'm a big fan of the design / color scheme.
      modelzero on HN
    • I find the scrolling interface strangely satisfying -> useful too, as you can do a full page search via the browser. Good job!
      lwhi on HN
  • Impressive for a first website

    From 2 comments
    • Well done! For a first website, this is amazing. I can learn some bash from this site. Also, I want to say it was a pleasure (more relief, really - now 2020-02-13) to read the…
      I_complete_me on HN
    • Nice job for a first site! You must have learned a lot about bash while working it :)
      miguelmota on HN

Objections

  • Low text contrast and dark theme hard to read

    From 3 comments
    • I bookmarked this as it will be very helpful to me, so thank you! My constructive or no so constructive criticism is that I really really don't like the theme. I find it really…
      zeku on HN
    • I really want to check this out, but my eyes hurt reading the page because the contrast of gray on black is so low. A vision-impaired person might not be able to read it at all.…
      agwa on HN
    • Echoing that is is a very useful site and echoing concerns re: theme and glad you are giving some options! Specially, I'd like to callout the main problem to address when adding…
      sodapopcan on HN
  • Serif fonts hard to read

    From 2 comments
    • Nice. My initial reaction is that the serif fonts are hard to read. Can you try some console or san-serif fonts, or make that configurable? Someone else suggested toggleable…
      zerkten on HN
    • Very cool, thanks for sharing. Here's some trivial suggestions. - There's a lot of info here, so I think you should aim for curation and conciseness, rather than completeness.…
      danso on HN
  • Popup is intrusive

    From 1 comment
    • Some feedback you probably won't hear from the HN crowd: Give more context to the site for initial visitors. Its going to be more obvious to those who visited from HN but not to…
      geekbread on HN
  • Not responsive on mobile

    From 3 comments
    • Opened the site on my iphone 6S and could not even close the popup.
      pezo1919 on HN
    • Your disclaimer modal doesn't fit on mobile causing the viewport to extend outside expected bounds. Otherwise looks nice.
      holmberd on HN
    • Nice reference, compact and complete. My 2 cents: top menu goes away when you reduce window width; on mobile no menu at all (but content goes one column correctly, so halfway…
      calcar on HN

Requests

  • Add examples for commands

    From 3 comments
    • Very nice. I know that it is a bash quick reference, but I was kinda expecting to see an example, at least for each section. Or a different page with a few examples and maybe a…
      hojjat12000 on HN
    • It would definitely be helpful to have more context. I know some bash, but I'm far from an expert. The first thing I see on the page is a list of flags, but no clue what commands…
      imgabe on HN
    • Second this. I was looking for examples of how to use some of the commands. I was able to easily google it in another tab, but it broke the quick-reference workflow.
      samtimalsina on HN
  • Add color themes and contrast options

    From 2 comments
    • I'm about to implement some common color-themes which'll be easy to toggle (visually/color-wise it'll be like those themes you'd see in an IDE like Eclipse or Intelli-J f.e.). I…
      manjana on HN
    • Nice. My initial reaction is that the serif fonts are hard to read. Can you try some console or san-serif fonts, or make that configurable? Someone else suggested toggleable…
      zerkten on HN
  • Add context for first-time visitors

    From 1 comment
    • Some feedback you probably won't hear from the HN crowd: Give more context to the site for initial visitors. Its going to be more obvious to those who visited from HN but not to…
      geekbread on HN
  • Copy-to-clipboard on click

    From 2 comments
    • Looks great! Can you add a feature to copy the flag/notation/etc when you click on it?
      garettmd on HN
    • Nice reference, compact and complete. My 2 cents: top menu goes away when you reduce window width; on mobile no menu at all (but content goes one column correctly, so halfway…
      calcar on HN

Questions

  • Which command does a flag belong to?

    From 2 comments
    • It would definitely be helpful to have more context. I know some bash, but I'm far from an expert. The first thing I see on the page is a list of flags, but no clue what commands…
      imgabe on HN
    • You list the flags, but are you supposed to guess the commands? For example, on the File Testing Operators section, I can't find a single mention that the command is "test"
      anticycle on HN

Alternatives named

  • man bash and info pages

    From 2 comments
    • There is also 'man bash', you can even search it. Joking aside, the bash man page is pretty good and well structured. ``` man bash | grep '^[A-Z]' ```
      Scarbutt on HN
    • > "help [ -e" doesn't work. The [ documentation also doesn't tell you what options are available Well, knowing that `[` is the same as `test`, you can `man test` to see the…
      jolmg on HN
  • cheat.sh

    From 1 comment
    • cheat.sh is way better method for searching something like https://cht.sh/bash+string+slice
      dawidgoslawski on HN
  • hyperpolyglot

    From 1 comment
    • Nicely organized and well done! Thank you. For all people like me addicted to this kind of reference websites full of information, check out http://hyperpolyglot.org/unix-shells…
      lgeorget on HN

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