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Yes
man
is intended to be a manual so it's understandably bad at being a cheatsheet. Check outtldr
ortealdeer
. They are similar but I foundtealdeer
to be much faster for me. Also try a shell with better completion than bash, likezsh
orfish
. Having better completion will sometimes sidestep the need for a cheatsheet altogether.You can curl the file normally, inspect, and then run it with bash. All the safety issues of running stuff you found online still apply (is the source trusted?), but you don't get the issues that arise specifically from piping curl to bash. But most applications don't need you to
curl | bash
in the first time because of package managers.