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match command-line arguments to their help text

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2013-08-30 · latest 2025-07-29

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  1. …going through Google's ads/results would be better? [0] https://github.com/pombadev/bropages [1] https://github.com/idank/explainshell
    comment by stelonix · 2025-07-29 · in My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)
  2. …editor https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck https://github.com/idank/explainshell
    comment by b5n · 2023-08-11 · in Oils 0.17.0 – YSH Is Becoming Real
  3. …art process hierarchy (forest)"). (I considered filing a bug report, but there is one already: https://github.com/idank/explainshell/issues/214 )
    comment by comex · 2023-05-20 · in Debugging a FUSE deadlock in the Linux kernel
  4. …a specific high level explanation of how this part works), as the site is an open source project. https://github.com/idank/explainshell#how
    comment by g_p · 2022-05-30 · in Enter a command to see help text for each arg
  5. As far as missing command flags, this explains what to do: https://github.com/idank/explainshell/issues/1
    comment by myroon5 · 2019-02-10 · in Explain shell
  6. > parsing out the man pages https://github.com/idank/explainshell
    comment by vdm · 2014-08-25 · in Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
  7. There is one in its own file: https://github.com/idank/explainshell/blob/master/TODO It's slightly out of sync with the github issues though.
    comment by idank · 2014-06-26 · in Bash [ -z hello ]
  8. Source https://github.com/idank/explainshell This is truly stunning. It's a small thing, and what it does is not stupendous. But the design, aesthetics, ease of use, in a word elegance makes the combined whole a superlative tool.
    comment by njharman · 2013-12-02 · in Explain Shell
  9. You can run the web server locally. See the source code readme: https://github.com/idank/explainshell It should be trivial to whip something up that will generate the right URL for a set of arguments, running either on your local web…
    comment by michaelhoffman · 2013-12-02 · in Explain Shell
  10. Code is now on github: https://github.com/idank/explainshell
    comment by idank · 2013-08-30 · in Explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text