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Use of the content

The shell-command snippets, equivalents, gotchas, and worked examples on shellmap are intended for personal reference, learning, and everyday scripting. You're welcome to copy snippets into your own shell, paste them into a notebook, quote them in a blog post (a link back is appreciated), or screenshot a page for a presentation.

Bulk scraping or wholesale republication of the catalog — mirroring whole sections of /cmd or /taskto a competing site, training a commercial model on the corpus, or rebranding shellmap content as your own — isn't in scope and isn't welcome.

No warranty — verify before you run

shellmap is provided as is, with no warranty of accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Shell tools evolve, distributions ship subtly different builds, and the same command can have different defaults under bash 3.2 vs 5.2 vs zsh vs fish vs PowerShell 5.1 vs PowerShell 7 vs cmd.exe.

Before running anything destructive — rm -rf, find -delete, Remove-Item -Recurse -Force, dd, anything that touches a remote server or production data — test in a disposable directory or VM, prefer --dry-run / -WhatIf, and read the source-of-truth man page for your specific build. shellmap is a starting point, not a substitute for that verification.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operators of shellmap are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising from your use of the site — including but not limited to lost data, corrupted files, broken deploys, or downtime caused by a command you copied from here. You use the snippets at your own risk on machines you control.

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Recommendations of shells, tools, or commands are editorial — they reflect what we think is the cleanest answer for the question asked, not paid placement.

Intellectual property

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