Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CHEAT file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert CHEAT to another file type
To convert CHEAT Reference sheets to another format, you need Navi or other Developer software.
Convert a file to CHEAT
To convert other file formats to the "CLI Cheatsheet" file type, you need software like Navi or a similar tool.
About CHEAT files
Navi Cheatsheet files (.cheat) store command-line snippets and metadata used by the Navi interactive terminal tool. Developers use them to organize and execute complex shell commands across environments. While essentially plain text, the format relies on a strict, specialized syntax where the percent symbol defines tags, the hash symbol denotes descriptions, and variables are bracketed for interactive prompting. This makes the file heavily dependent on the Navi environment. If a user does not have the software installed via package managers like Homebrew or Cargo, the file appears as poorly formatted text and cannot be executed natively like a standard Bash script. Sharing terminal cheatsheets with non-developers or integrating them into standard wikis requires conversion. The best target formats are MD (Markdown) or TXT (Plain Text). Converting to MD allows you to format the shell commands into readable code blocks, though you will permanently lose the interactive CLI prompting functionality. Standard online converters fail to process .cheat files because they do not recognize this niche developer extension, often rejecting it outright.
Convert.Guru analyzes your CHEAT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert CHEAT file to EXE, MSI, APP, DMG, DEB, RPM, PKG, RUN, SH, BAT, CMD or COM, you can use Navi or similar software from the "Command-line Cheatsheet Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert JAR, APP, SCR, IPA, COM, AAB, PS1, DMG, VBS, EXE, XAPK or MSI files to CHEAT, try Navi or another comparable tool in the "Command-line Cheatsheet Storage" category.
The CHEAT Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our CHEAT converter.