Explain Shell

I totally love this, it's already incredibly helpful! It's super-functional, and frankly it's very, very nice looking. To Mr. Idan Kamara, the creator of this, I have nothing but the highest praise! Now, I hate to get side-tracked, but for much larger commands, like this one: ps x -o "%r %c " | grep "someScript.sh" | awk -F' ' '{print $1}' | xargs -I % /bin/kill -TERM -- -% that has a lot of parts, it can be hard to…

Very nice! I fed it one of my favorite commands: git branch --merged | grep -v master | xargs -n 1 git branch -d and it dealt with it reasonably well. The only part it couldn't understand was `branch -d` at the end. In other words, it was not capable of recognizing that the non-option arguments to `xargs` should actually be recursively interpreted as a command-line.

Explain shell is something that has helped me a lot, but the situation of needing it left me baffled for so long... Why can't I search by command + flag? For example, I know what command A does, but I'm not sure what flag C means. I can search for man A, but why can't I search man A --flag C to get only the relevan portion of the manpage? This has baffled me for years. I'd have guessed that…

What a great idea. One of those clever ideas that are immediately obvious once you see them (but not before). I find man pages a chore to read, and that has definitely held back my skills, so if this actually works—i.e., you can type in any command and get a readable layout of what it does—I can definitely see using it. Edit: It might be tricky to make this robust enough across all valid commands. I tried a few variations…