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chatgpt — Shell script to use OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALL-E from the terminal. More information: <https://github

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Problem

How to use the chatgpt command: Shell script to use OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALL-E from the terminal. More information: <https://github.com/0xacx/chatGPT-shell-cli>.

Solution

chatgpt — Shell script to use OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALL-E from the terminal. More information: <https://github.com/0xacx/chatGPT-shell-cli>.

Start in chat mode:

chatgpt

Give a prompt to answer to:

chatgpt {{[-p|--prompt]}} "{{What is the regex to match an email address?}}"

Start in chat mode using a specific model (default is gpt-3.5-turbo):

chatgpt {{[-m|--model]}} {{gpt-4}}

Start in chat mode with an initial prompt:

chatgpt {{[-i|--init-prompt]}} "{{You are Rick, from Rick and Morty. Respond to questions using his mannerism and include insulting jokes.}}"

Pipe the result of a command to chatgpt as a prompt:

echo "{{How to view running processes on Ubuntu?}}" | chatgpt

Generate an image using DALL-E:

chatgpt {{[-p|--prompt]}} "{{image: A white cat}}"

Code Snippets

Start in chat mode

chatgpt

Give a prompt to answer to

chatgpt {{[-p|--prompt]}} "{{What is the regex to match an email address?}}"

Start in chat mode using a specific model (default is `gpt-3.5-turbo`)

chatgpt {{[-m|--model]}} {{gpt-4}}

Start in chat mode with an initial prompt

chatgpt {{[-i|--init-prompt]}} "{{You are Rick, from Rick and Morty. Respond to questions using his mannerism and include insulting jokes.}}"

Pipe the result of a command to `chatgpt` as a prompt

echo "{{How to view running processes on Ubuntu?}}" | chatgpt

Context

tldr-pages: common/chatgpt

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