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24 alternatives to How
how: terminal assistant generating accurate shell commands
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I was constantly googling CLI commands so I built this small CLI tool with GPT3. You can ask for shell commands right from the CLI. You'd need to use your own API KEY for this but it's pretty simple, instructions are in the README Not perfect but not bad either.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GitHub CLI▲408GitHub’s official free and open source command line tool
2020 · cli.github.com · its alternatives →
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Blog post: https://guywaldman.com/posts/introducing-magic-cli
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Your wishes are my commands. Contribute to dylanjcastillo/shell-genie development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Box CLI▲97An open source command line interface from Box
2017 · developer.box.com · its alternatives →
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mdi-cli▲92Generate material design icons from the command line
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Clide ▲93Grid-layout terminal with an AI that drives your shells.
Apr 2026 · clide.app · its alternatives →
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TechCrunch CLI▲113A command line Interface for reading TechCrunch articles
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bring the power of Grok into your terminal
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A delightfully minimal, yet remarkably powerful AI Shell Assistant. - ibigio/shell-ai
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shell GPT▲62CLI tool for developers, helps you accomplish tasks faster
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Last month, I started learning a Python TUI framework called Textual. After working on a 4x4 board game, I made an interactive app to test your CLI text processing skills with 40 beginner to intermediate level exercises. The app is fairly basic in terms of features — only single input file, so no stdin data, multiple files, etc. Most of the exercises in this app is based on my Computing from the Command Line ebook (https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/preface.html). I hope to improve the TUI app to support all the 200+ exercises sometime next year.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Onboard-CLI—a blazing-fast developer tool I built in Go. It uses AST parsing (Tree-sitter) to map out codebase architecture and automatically blocks spaghetti code and bad dependencies locally before you even commit. I heavily optimized the concurrency, so it can parse 50k+ files in under 10 seconds.
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is my take on the common "use llms to generate shell commands" utility. Emphasis is placed on good CLI UX, simplicity, and flexibility. `llm2sh` supports multiple LLM providers and lets LLMs generate multi-command sequences to handle complex tasks. There is also limited support for commands requiring `sudo` and other basic input. I recommend using Groq llama3-70b for day-to-day use. The ultra-low latency is a game-changer - its near-instant responses helps `llm2sh` integrate seamlessly into day-to-day tasks without breaking you out of the 'zone'. For more advanced tasks, swapping to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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