Terminal documentation has a polarity problem: official manuals are precise but assume context, while forum answers supply context but rarely age well. CliBook sits deliberately between the two — plain-language orientation that points to the primary source instead of replacing it.
The site began as a set of internal onboarding notes for developers who kept re-deriving the same first principles. Those notes grew a structure, the structure grew chapters, and the chapters outgrew a text file. What you are reading is the cleaned-up result.
A small editorial group of working developers and technical writers. We take corrections seriously: if an entry misled you, that is a defect, and the address on the contact page reaches a human. The full method is described in the editorial policy.
Not a mirror, not a substitute for manuals, and not affiliated with any project described here. We write about utilities the way a good guidebook writes about a city — fondly, usefully, and from the outside.