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A TUI manual for every installed command-line tool you have.
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mandible is a TUI manual viewer that maps commands, sub-commands and flags from CLI tools which you can see all of them in one viewer.
For each CLI registered on your system, mandible detects each program's help library and command line parser and uses the detected grammar to parse the available command-line option. The list of commands are shown on the left hand side as a parsed command tree view and the sub-commands below.
It can also search command names, flags and descriptions in the search bar at the top and every selected command and sub-commands details is presented at the right hand side with the supported flags. Vim-keybindings are available in mandible and has shell completions which can be installed for bash, fish, zsh.
mandible works well for software engineers, developers, hobbyists and terminal power-users who want to see the CLI flags of any command line tool on their system without manually invoking --help. It is very useful to learn unfamiliar CLI tools, or to use it as a quick reference.
