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Problem

How to use the oneliner command: Turn plain English into shell commands using OpenAI, Claude, or local LLMs, designed to teach, not replace your knowledge. More information: <https://github.com/dorochadev/oneliner#-usage-flags>.

Solution

oneliner — Turn plain English into shell commands using OpenAI, Claude, or local LLMs, designed to teach, not replace your knowledge. More information: <https://github.com/dorochadev/oneliner#-usage-flags>.

Generate a shell command from plain English:

oneliner "{{find all jpg files larger than 10MB}}"

Explain what a command does:

oneliner {{[-e|--explain]}} "{{delete node_modules recursively}}"

Copy a generated command to the clipboard:

oneliner {{[-c|--clipboard]}} "{{compress all pdfs}}"

Show a detailed, educational breakdown of a command:

oneliner {{[-b|--breakdown]}} "{{list all active network connections}}"

Execute a generated command (use with caution):

oneliner {{[-r|--run]}} "{{list files larger than 1GB}}"

Interactively confirm before executing a generated command:

oneliner {{[-i|--interactive]}} "{{delete temporary files in /tmp}}"

Code Snippets

Generate a shell command from plain English

oneliner "{{find all jpg files larger than 10MB}}"

Explain what a command does

oneliner {{[-e|--explain]}} "{{delete node_modules recursively}}"

Copy a generated command to the clipboard

oneliner {{[-c|--clipboard]}} "{{compress all pdfs}}"

Show a detailed, educational breakdown of a command

oneliner {{[-b|--breakdown]}} "{{list all active network connections}}"

Execute a generated command (use with caution)

oneliner {{[-r|--run]}} "{{list files larger than 1GB}}"

Context

tldr-pages: common/oneliner

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