explainshell
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A web tool that parses man pages and explains command-line arguments by matching each argument to its help text. Before finishing any task, always: Use the LLM eval (tests/evals/llm/llm_eval.py) to…
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7 rules. About 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 4 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 25,680 CLAUDE.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Who's talking about idank/explainshell
- Quick Notepad Tutorial“How To install ExplainShell on ubuntu 16 Xenial Xerus”YouTube · May 21, 2017 · 100 views
- nushell/nushell“Smarter auto-complete built-in”GitHub · Feb 24, 2024 · 28 reactions
- bash-lsp/bash-language-server“Add explainshell integration”GitHub · Jun 4, 2018 · 9 reactions
- Gourcer“idank/explainshell - Gource visualisation”YouTube · Dec 24, 2021 · 5 views
- NixOS/nixpkgs“explainshell”GitHub · Jul 18, 2022 · 3 reactions
The biggest 5 of 25 mentions linking to the repository that our crawl found. Each line is their own headline.
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Talked about on GitHub, the web and YouTube (25 times).
On GitHub · 19
- Feb 24, 2024Smarter auto-complete built-in — nushell/nushell28 reactions · 21 comments
- Jun 4, 2018Add explainshell integration — bash-lsp/bash-language-server9 reactions · 5 comments
- Jul 18, 2022explainshell — NixOS/nixpkgs3 reactions · 4 comments
- Nov 26, 2023Add explainshell integration — wavetermdev/waveterm1 reaction · 1 comment
- Oct 16, 2026Docs: shell scripts (Editora #1192, #1197) — adriandeleon/editora-website0 reactions
14 more on GitHub
- Jun 22, 2026[Tool Submission Request] explainshell.com — BraveOPotato/NoSignups0 reactions
- Jan 5, 2026Explain Shell tool — sharevb/it-tools0 reactions · 4 comments
- Jun 30, 2025feat: Request to add explainshell or similar tool — drodil/backstage-plugin-toolbox0 reactions · 1 comment
- Feb 24, 2024Bug - explainshell services has no /api path, so arg tips doesn't work — bash-lsp/bash-language-server0 reactions · 13 comments
- Jan 10, 2024Bash IDE throws a warning pasing the response from Explainshell, but works anyway? — bash-lsp/bash-language-server0 reactions · 9 comments
- Sep 14, 2021Issues configuring + switching between additional LSP servers — jupyter-lsp/jupyterlab-lsp0 reactions · 1 comment
- Feb 22, 2021Explain mode — CLIUtils/CLI110 reactions · 1 comment
- Nov 17, 2019Feature/api view — asfaltboy/explainshell0 reactions
- Jun 7, 2019Do something like https://explainshell.com — radareorg/radare2-book0 reactions · 1 comment
- Jan 25, 2019命令行解释工具，包括文档。 — ruanyf/weekly0 reactions
- Jun 4, 2018Add explainshell integration to the bash language server — sourcegraph/lsp-adapter0 reactions
- May 28, 2018Simplify the JSON response — asfaltboy/explainshell0 reactions · 1 comment
- May 28, 2018Simplify the JSON response — asfaltboy/explainshell0 reactions · 1 comment
- Oct 25, 2015ubuntu/trusty: add man pages from section 1 and 8 — idank/explainshell-manpages0 reactions · 2 comments
On the web · 4
- Feb 7, 2024explainshell - match command-line arguments to their help ... — google.com
- Mar 7, 2017ExplainShell – Find What Each Part Of A Linux Command ... — ostechnix.com
- Dec 2, 2013Explain Shell — google.com
- Sep 16, 2013ExplainShell - Linux & macOS Bash — google.com
On YouTube · 2
- May 21, 2017How To install ExplainShell on ubuntu 16 Xenial Xerus — Quick Notepad Tutorial100 views
- Dec 24, 2021idank/explainshell - Gource visualisation — Gourcer5 views
In this repository5 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- eval-llmSkill
- eval-renderSkill
- mandoc-fixSkill
- my-planSkill
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