shell-ask (shell ver)

Ask LLM directly from your terminal, and let the AI answer your terminal's output without leaving the terminal. Or generate shell commands you're not familiar with. A bash script will do the trick. You can even manually write plugins to let AI help you do more things.

Install

This script is written in bash, Simply download the script and add execution permissions, this script relies on curl and jq, make sure they are installed on your system!

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TBXark/shell-ask/master/ask.sh > /usr/local/bin/ask
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ask

Supported LLMs

• All OpenAI Compatible LLMs API

Configuration

Config File

ask set-config answer_language chinese
ask set-config api_key sk-xxxx
ask set-config api_model deepseek-chat
ask set-config api_endpoint https://api.deepseek.com/chat/completions

You can also edit ~/.config/ask.sh/config.json directly

Environment Variables

If you don't want to use a configuration file, you can set the configuration via environment variables.

export SHELL_ASK_API_KEY=xxx
export SHELL_ASK_API_MODEL=xxx
export SHELL_ASK_API_ENDPOINT=xxx
export SHELL_ASK_ANSWER_LANGUAGE=xxx

Or you can change configuration file path by setting SHELL_ASK_CONFIG_FILE environment variable

export SHELL_ASK_CONFIG_FILE=/path/to/config.json

Usage

Generate Shell commands based on questions:

ask "What was my last git commit message?"
# Output:
# git log -1 --pretty=%B

Using command output as context:

ifconfig -a | ask "My local IP"
# Output:
# Your local IP address is `192.168.31.200`

Plugins

Install Plugin

ask install-plugin https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TBXark/shell-ask/master/plugins/translate.sh

Or you can install the plugin manually in the ~/.config/ask.sh/plugins directory

Use Plugin

Usage: ask -p PLUGIN_NAME [ARGS] or pipe | ask -p PLUGIN_NAME [ARGS]

echo "你好，世界" | ask -p translate english
# Output:
# Hello, World

Create Plugin

The plugin is a script file that implements the gen_content (required) and after_ask (optional) functions. The gen_content function is used to generate the context of the question, and the after_ask function is used to process AI's response.

In after_ask, you can do many things, such as writing the result to a file or directly executing the command returned by AI.

For details, please refer to example

Thanks

This project was inspired by the egoist/shell-ask project, but since it has a dependency on nodejs, I decided to rewrite it in bash

License

shell-ask is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.