andrewhead / tutorons-server

Routines for generating micro-explanations of online code as a web service.
http://www.tutorons.com
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Support for openssl command #38

Open andrewhead opened 8 years ago

andrewhead commented 8 years ago

The OpenSSL command is pretty cryptic and difficult to understand. The last couple of times that I've encountered it, I haven't bothered getting to know what any of it does because the command is so huge. Let's explain it in the style that we did for the wget Tutoron!

Here's an example of where the openssl command appears in a tutorial: http://www.shellhacks.com/en/HowTo-Check-SSL-Certificate-Expiration-Date-from-the-Linux-Shell

Some proximal steps for supporting this are:

Let's think carefully about how we can parse and explain openssl without having to download and modify the openssl source. It's very costly to do this for every command!