explainshell-cli

explainshell.com CLI implementation in Rust

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Needs the Rust Toolchain (available at https://rustup.rs/ ).

Installation:

cargo install --git https://github.com/p1g30n/explainshell-cli

note that ~/.cargo/bin/ must be in your $PATH

Usage:

explain COMMAND [ARGS] (combining arguments works)

Example:

explain tar -xzvf

Output:

The GNU version of the tar archiving utility
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-x, --extract, --get
      extract files from an archive
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-z, --gzip, --gunzip --ungzip
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-v, --verbose
      verbosely list files processed
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-f, --file ARCHIVE
      use archive file or device ARCHIVE
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