Enter a command to see help text for each arg

• command_help

  8 93 0.0 Shell

  :information_source: Extract help text from builtin commands and man pages

I wrote a Linux CLI tool [0] that parses the man/help pages to extract option details. Works most of the time for me, but there are plenty of corner cases that don't work.

[0] https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help

• explainshell

  7 12,817 2.3 Python

  match command-line arguments to their help text

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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• murex

  55 1,364 9.6 Go

  A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)

Some shells have this built in, like Fish and my own one ( https://murex.rocks ) too

• fish-shell

  320 24,502 9.9 Rust

  The user-friendly command line shell.

  

It’s on the front page: https://fishshell.com/

> Other shells support programmable completions, but only fish generates them automatically by parsing your installed man pages.

Fish isn’t the only one though. In fact I’m not even sure it was the first. But it’s definitely the most mainstream shell to support it.

Suggest a related project