Show HN: Zev – Remember (or discover) terminal commands

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16 pointsdtnewman2 comments

I'm often in the terminal and forget a command (or never knew it in the first place). This is a simple tool that lets you type out what you want, gives you several options, and then automatically puts the one you want in your clipboard.

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Perfect! This will be useful for me.

I frequently ask the LLM for a command and then copy and paste it into the terminal already. Zev will be a nice upgrade.

There is a zsh plugin (zsh-github-copilot) that automates this process. Just type what you want to do, hit a custom keybind, and buffer is replaced by a command that does what you described.

You can also have a second keybind that uses a zle widget to show an annotated description of the command currently in the buffer.

It works surprisingly well, and has saved me from having to dig through manpages several times.

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