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gemini — Launch an interactive prompt with Gemini AI. More information: <https://github.com/google-gemini/gem

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Problem

How to use the gemini command: Launch an interactive prompt with Gemini AI. More information: <https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli>.

Solution

gemini — Launch an interactive prompt with Gemini AI. More information: <https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli>.

Start a REPL session to chat interactively:

gemini

Send the output of another command to Gemini and exit immediately:

{{echo "Summarize the history of Rome"}} | gemini {{[-p|--prompt]}}

Override the default model (default: gemini-2.5-pro):

gemini {{[-m|--model]}} {{gemini-2.5-flash}}

Run inside a sandbox container:

gemini {{[-s|--sandbox]}}

Execute a prompt then stay in interactive mode:

gemini {{[-i|--prompt-interactive]}} "{{Give me an example of recursion in Python}}"

Include all files in context:

gemini {{[-a|--all-files]}}

Show memory usage in status bar:

gemini --show-memory-usage

Code Snippets

Start a REPL session to chat interactively

gemini

Send the output of another command to Gemini and exit immediately

{{echo "Summarize the history of Rome"}} | gemini {{[-p|--prompt]}}

Override the default model (default: gemini-2.5-pro)

gemini {{[-m|--model]}} {{gemini-2.5-flash}}

Run inside a sandbox container

gemini {{[-s|--sandbox]}}

Execute a prompt then stay in interactive mode

gemini {{[-i|--prompt-interactive]}} "{{Give me an example of recursion in Python}}"

Context

tldr-pages: common/gemini

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