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md-to-clip:tldr:e23c2
md-to-clip: Convert a tldr-page file to stdout.
$ md-to-clip --no-file-save <(echo '${page-content}')
try on your machine
This command is using a tool called md-to-clip
with some additional parameters and input. Here's what each part of the command does:
md-to-clip
: This is the name of the tool/program being used. This tool is likely designed to convert Markdown content to the clipboard (clipboard on your computer where you can copy and paste text).--no-file-save
: This is a parameter/flag for themd-to-clip
tool. It is telling the tool not to save the converted content to a file.<(echo '${page-content}')
: This is the input being provided to themd-to-clip
tool. It uses a process substitution technique<(...)
to provide the output of theecho
command as input. In this case,${page-content}
is a variable that contains the Markdown content to be converted.
In summary, this command takes the value of ${page-content}
, which is likely a Markdown text, and converts it to clipboard-ready format using the md-to-clip
tool, without saving it to a file.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.