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Explain Shell- command line utility

Simple Perl script to fetch and parse shell-command explanations from cli using the excellent explainshell.com service.

If there's something broken or shitty, please make a pull request.

INSTALLATION

Just put "explain"-file somewhere along your $PATH and make it executable

(chmod +x ./explain).

You need to have Perl with HTML::Tree installed

(For help with installing CPAN-modules, see http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html)

USAGE

~ $ explain COMMAND [PARAMETERS]

for example:

~ $ explain ls -la

  # list directory contents
  #   -l     use a long listing format
  #   -a, --all
     do not ignore entries starting with .

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2013 Roni Kantis (http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronikantis) with the MIT-license, so basically do what you want with it.

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