HACKER Q&A
📣 ulrischa

Is there a GUI for bash shell?


I know I will get a massive shitstorm, but I always forget the flags and options for the numerous linux command line Tools like grep etc. I'm using the shell from time to time and so I'm not using the commands daily and forget about them. So my question: Are there any Tools to help here? I do not mean a man page but some kind of GUI for the commands or something like regex101 for a shell command.

  👤 sargstuff Accepted Answer ✓
Pull/edit command line from history file on current command line. [1][2]

[1] : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4079/put-history-co...

[2] : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/529195/load-command...

👤 cpach
I’ve never even seen a prototype of what a GUI for Bash would look like.

However, there is Warp, which might be of interest.

“Ask Warp AI to suggest the right command or chat to get answers about any programming question. Your requests stay private and secure, never used to train public models.”

I haven’t tried it myself, but I have aquaintances that swear by it.

https://www.warp.dev/

👤 ksherlock
Back when Classic Mac OS was just Mac OS, MPW and A/UX had Commando which was exactly that.

example: https://norden.social/@chucker/110481404731662825

That could be done with Linux (wayland/x) but on MPW the shell/terminal/commando were all integrated which isn't the case for Linux or OS X today.

👤 stop50
For easier reading of manpages i usually use https://man7.org or the distro specific manpage website like https://man.archlinux.org/ or https://manpages.debian.org/
👤 solardev
Just ask ChatGPT, it's pretty good at figuring out the commands and params and explaining them.
👤 sargstuff
"shell history is your best productivity tool" : https://martinheinz.dev/blog/110
👤 p0d
Maybe you should make one? Slack to me is IRC. I imagine there is mileage in giving the world Bash in a more usable fashion.
👤 is_taken
Maybe this already helps: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr