HN Reader

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

Nice! I use a combination of an endless bash (zsh) history with timestamps that I navigate via fzf and ctr+r and comments I occasionally add to commands via # at the end followed by my annotation so that I can rediscover the command.

I do this ever since I switched to a Mac in 2015 and my history has over 60,000 lines. So that’s basically my knowledge base :)

But your project looks nice. Will check out.

9 months agoby submeta

Your gif in your README features a prompt asking to "show all files in this directory" but the 'ls -lh' returned and selected in the demo gif does not show all files, just the ones that aren't hidden. I'd have chosen a more accurate interaction for the demo.

9 months agoby AvieDeckard

I'm trying to get this to work with ollama. I'm on Arch Linux, fish shell, new to ollama, and only very rarely used pipx. I get:

raise ValueError("OPENAI_BASE_URL and OPENAI_API_KEY must be set. Try running `zev --setup`.") ValueError: OPENAI_BASE_URL and OPENAI_API_KEY must be set. Try running `zev --setup`

even when I run (for example) set -x ZEV_USE_OLLAMA 1; zev 'show all files and all permissions'

9 months agoby chrisco23

I don't like most of these commands because they just execute. This one is nice because it will be in your history. The current trick I use is to use copilot.vim at the command line. It naturally fits into my flow.

Recently some of my friends reported that it just wants to do comments and I've noticed that it actually biases towards that nowadays, so I start it with something to get it kicked off.

I've been managing to try to figure out what in the prompt makes it like that, but for the moment that little workaround gives me both the comment and the command in my history so it's easier to r-i-search for it.

https://x.com/arjie/status/1575201117595926530

You just set up copilot for neovim normally and set it as your EDITOR. https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/index.php/AI_Completion_In_The...

9 months agoby arjie

You may be interested in copying some of the usage patterns from my similar project: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/llm-cmd-comp

Instead of being a separate command, I released a set of key bindings you can push that start the LLM prompt with your current command line, and if you successfully accept the suggestion, replace your command line with the result, bypassing the manual clipboard step, and making it so that the result goes into your shell history as a normal command.

9 months agoby CGamesPlay

I really like how it gives you multiple options to choose from. I've been using https://github.com/simonw/llm-cmd

9 months agoby 0x696C6961

Named after Zev from the film Remember? A few years back I wrote a Vim plugin to remember things with the same name :-)

9 months agoby arp242

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/latest/userguide/c...

Looks like cw from aws

9 months agoby Bishonen88

Nice! Little plug for what I did too, in a similar vein - it has a web version https://gencmd.com/ and also a cmd line version.

9 months agoby sathishvj

Since it's generating terminal commands dynamically, what safeguards (if any) are in place to avoid generating destructive or insecure commands (like rm -rf /, etc.)?

9 months agoby badmonster

Why not https://docs.atuin.sh/?

9 months agoby latchkey

how do I install it with pip? It requires to be in virtual environment. (

9 months agoby wapxmas

Newman!

9 months agoby tzury

It uses locally hosted (or remote) LLMs to create and execute shell commands that you describe. You can go as far as writing "shell scripts" in natural language.

9 months agoby regnull

Hi Zev!

9 months agoby imzadi