smartsh.py

smartsh.py is a simple python script that I wrote which can take a task description (any string) as argument and query OpenAPI's API to tell you how to accomplish the given task using a shell command.

See it in action on asciinema!

Yes, chatgpt from command line (sort of). But let me tell you a simple trick that you can use to supercharge your bash with it!

bash (I think starting from 4.0) conveniently provides a handler for situations when a command that the user entered is invalid.

You just need to provide a function named command_not_found_handle () and point it to the action to be taken on, yes, when a command is not found :-)

In this case, you need to add the following to your .bashrc for the magic to work:

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_api_key"

export SMARTSH_PATH="path_where_you_checked_out_smartsh"

command_not_found_handle () {
    echo "Let's get help from OpenAI API!"
    python3 $SMARTSH_PATH/smartsh.py "$@"
}

Some examples:

bash$ Show the most recent file in the present working directory
Let's get help from OpenAI API!
ls -t | head -n1

bash$ Kill all Google chrome renderer processes
Let's get help from OpenAI API!
The command to accomplish this task is:

pkill -f "chrome.*renderer"


This command uses the `pkill` command to send a signal to all processes whose name matches the regular expression `chrome.*renderer`. This will effectively kill all Google Chrome renderer processes.

You can set the following additional environment variables which smartsh can make use of:

OPENAI_MODEL_ID: The model to use: Supported models are "text-davinci-003", "gpt-3.5-turbo" If the variable is not set, we use "gpt-3.5-turbo" by default

SMARTSH_DEBUG : Will print additional debug info when running smartsh

SMARTSH_SILENT_MODE When set to 1, smartsh will try not to print warnings about missing environment variables, current mode etc. Off by default.

SMARTSH_TEACHER_MODE When set to 1, smartsh will provide you an explanation about the command it synthesized. Note that this will disable the prompt to execute the synthesized command. Off by default.