ShellGPT: AI Commands in Your Terminal

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ShellGPT, an open source tool, turns your plain English into real shell commands. You type what you want, and it writes the command for your system.

You want to run a quick task in your terminal, but you don’t remember the exact command. You could search online, but that takes time and breaks your flow.

ShellGPT is a free open source app you install with pip. It reads your operating system and shell, then suggests a command you can run after you confirm it.

In this demo, you see three terminal frames. You type touch index.html, write hello world, and create nginx docker container. ShellGPT turns each into a working command and shows a real container ID.

ShellGPT is free and open source, so you can try it without paying. Would you use this workflow to speed up your terminal tasks?

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