explainshell
match command-line arguments to their help text (by idank)
task-spooler
A scheduler for GPU/CPU tasks (by justanhduc)
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12,825 | 227 | |
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2.0 | 4.4 | |
28 days ago | 2 months ago | |
Python | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
explainshell
Posts with mentions or reviews of explainshell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-11.
- Oils 0.17.0 – YSH Is Becoming Real
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looking for typescript linux corpora
https://github.com/idank/explainshell is the github, the "Running Locally" section has a curl command to grab their database dump. And below that is their command for reading in additional man pages.
- What are some lesser-known Linux software that are absolutely life changing?
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Is there a utility program that can describe a command line that I’m about to run?
This works. Ironically a program that explains CLIs doesn't have a CLI.
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Enter a command to see help text for each arg
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
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Suggestions for a book to help me learn Linux
Source code is available on github: https://github.com/idank/explainshell
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Repos interesantes de la semana #2
Repo: idank / explainshell
task-spooler
Posts with mentions or reviews of task-spooler.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-20.
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Sequential and parallel execution of long-running shell commands
A similar tool I highly recommend: https://github.com/justanhduc/task-spooler
At first I thought it would just be a one-off tool I used for one of my projects, not until I discovered later that it has everything I need and became my daily driver ever since.
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GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?
Wow this tool is fantastic, thank you! The UI is very nice and simple. How has this not existed in Unix for 30+ years?
https://github.com/justanhduc/task-spooler
- What are some lesser-known Linux software that are absolutely life changing?
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What is "tsp" on newsboat config?
Could be something like these.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing explainshell and task-spooler you can also consider the following projects:
naming-cheatsheet - Comprehensive language-agnostic guidelines on variables naming. Home of the A/HC/LC pattern.
cligen - Nim library to infer/generate command-line-interfaces / option / argument parsing; Docs at