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Navi Cheatsheet Introduction

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Ilham Surya
Ilham Surya
SRE Engineer - Fullstack Enthusiast - Go, Python, React, Typescript

An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line. navi allows you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands. Suggested values for arguments are dynamically displayed in a list.

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Mac Installation​

brew install navi

File Configuration​

By default its installed on local folder

.local/share/navi/cheats/.

For my case, i installed it in the Library folder

./Library/Application Support/navi/cheats

Cheatsheet creation​

It using this structure to grouping the cheatsheet. you can also manage it to different folder to easier maintenance

% git, code

# Change branch
git checkout <branch>

$ branch: git branch | awk '{print $NF}'

Usage​

Simply type navi, and then you will get this screen

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you can also print-out command (not executing it) by using this command

navi --print