explainshell

Yet the interface is fundamentally different, the output feels much more like bro pages[0] and it's within a click of clipboarding, one CTRL V away from extracting the 13th second screenshot. I've been using Google the past 24 years and my google-fu has always left people amazed; yet I can no longer bother to go through Stack Exchange's results when an LLM not only spits it out so nicely, but also does the equivalent of a explainshell[1]. Not comparable and I fail to see why going through Google's ads/results would be better? [0] https://github.com/pombadev/bropages [1] https://github.com/idank/explainshell

> Also when you do that you get all the benefits of using your riced-out, LSP-enabled editor https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck https://github.com/idank/explainshell

The explainshell output is actually largely wrong here. For historical reasons, GNU ps has two completely different sets of flags depending on whether you use a dash (ps -abcd) or not (ps abcd). The man page documents both sets, but explainshell is getting confused and showing a mix of dash versions and non-dash versions. For example, it shows the documentation for '-f' ("full-format listing"), but it should be showing the documentation for 'f' ("ASCII art process hierarchy (forest)"). (I considered filing a bug report, but there is one already: https://github.com/idank/explainshell/issues/214)

You can see how the parsing works in the source code (with a specific high level explanation of how this part works), as the site is an open source project. https://github.com/idank/explainshell#how

As far as missing command flags, this explains what to do: https://github.com/idank/explainshell/issues/1

> parsing out the man pages https://github.com/idank/explainshell

There is one in its own file: https://github.com/idank/explainshell/blob/master/TODO It's slightly out of sync with the github issues though.

Source https://github.com/idank/explainshell This is truly stunning. It's a small thing, and what it does is not stupendous. But the design, aesthetics, ease of use, in a word elegance makes the combined whole a superlative tool.

You can run the web server locally. See the source code readme: https://github.com/idank/explainshell It should be trivial to whip something up that will generate the right URL for a set of arguments, running either on your local web server or against explainshell.com

Code is now on github: https://github.com/idank/explainshell