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<!--
Thank you for contributing!
Please fill in the following checklist, removing items that do not apply.
See also https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
See also https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md.
-->

#### If you are a new contributor to the project, do not use AI to generate pages. We will close any PR with a suspicion of AI usage.
### Checklist

- [ ] The page(s) are in the correct platform directories: `common`, `linux`, `osx`, `windows`, `sunos`, `android`, etc.
- [ ] The page description(s) have links to documentation or a homepage.
- [ ] The page(s) follow the [content guidelines](/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#guidelines).
- [ ] The page(s) follow the [style guide](/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/main/contributing-guides/style-guide.md).
- [ ] The PR contains at most 5 new pages.
- [ ] The PR is authored by me, or has been human-reviewed if it was created with AI or machine translation software.
- [ ] The PR title conforms to the recommended [templates](/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#commit-message-and-pr-title).
- **Version of the command being documented (if known):**
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> [!NOTE]
> When submitting a new command, please base your PR against the `main` branch and check if there's already a pull request in progress for it.
> [!WARNING]
> We strongly discourage using generative AI tools to create new pages, as their output is often inaccurate and may not follow our style guidelines.
> For translations, machine translation tools may be used as reference, but their results must be thoroughly proofread before submission.
> Pull requests suspected of being made in whole or in part through generative AI or machine translation software without human-review will be closed.
## Guidelines

The basic format of a `tldr` page is a set of concrete usage examples.
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