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原始链接: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784668

“Zev” 是一款新工具,利用大型语言模型 (LLM) 帮助用户记住或发现终端命令。它接收用户想要执行操作的自然语言描述,并生成一系列可能的终端命令列表。用户选择所需的命令后,该命令会被复制到剪贴板以便手动运行。 一些评论者分享了他们使用的类似方案,例如利用 bash/zsh 历史记录以及诸如 fzf 之类的模糊搜索工具。有人担心可能会生成破坏性命令,创建者正在考虑添加安全措施,例如标记潜在危险的命令并提供解释。一些用户建议将其与现有的工具(如管理 shell 历史记录的 Atuin 和 llm-cmd)集成。其他用户也有类似的项目,例如 gencmd.com 和 how.sh。通过 pip 安装可能需要虚拟环境,但创建者正在努力减少依赖项。

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    Show HN: Zev – Remember (or discover) terminal commands (github.com/dtnewman)
    80 points by dtnewman 1 day ago | hide | past | favorite | 34 comments










    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.



    Exactly my setup including the #tag's. It is my second brain.

    What I love about this is the fzf's fuzzy narrow down. You don't have to start at the beginning of command, you don't have to worry about exact spelling. Just a few snippets you remember, it will narrow it down really fast.

    I use the same fuzzy search narrow downs in Emacs.

    I miss it everywhere else.



    Can you explain how you achieve this?


    Shells that use readline (such as bash) may have a history search feature built-in and on by default. Try pressing Ctrl-r or Cmd-r and see if a prompt pops up.

    You can build your own workflow by hand by doing something like:

    1. Turn on your shell’s feature to record command history.

    2. Look into its feature set to control things such as how many entries it remembers, whether it remembers duplicate entries, and whether it timestamps each entry. (Don’t forget to restart each instance of your shell, if needed, for changes to take effect.)

    3. Install a tool such as fzf that allows interactive filtering of arbitrary text. (Via Homebrew it’s `brew install fzf`. It’s likely something similar for other package managers.) These tools usually: read lines of input, prompt the user to optionally filter but eventually select a line, then just print that line.

    4. Write the necessary shell script(s) / functions / aliases to do things like:

    + invoke the fuzzy-finder on the shell’s history file or a modified version of that file (for example, a modified version that excludes bash’s timestamp lines, or that joins them - perhaps in a human-readable format - with the command it timestamps.)

    + process the output of the fuzzy-finder tool (for example, to copy the command to the clipboard, paste it into the shell, or execute it immediately - which will necessitate things like removing any timestamps or additional notation added in the previous step.)

    Step 4 can be easy as something approximating (I’m on mobile right now):

       fzf “$HOME/.bash_history” | copy-to-clipboard


    Not op but you need fzf and you need to increase the history size of your bash/ssh whatever

    https://github.com/junegunn/fzf



    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.


    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'



    creator here. It pulls env variables from a file in your appstorage directory. I need to change this in a future release to make it cleaner, since I don't think i like it intermingling with env variables.

    That said, did you run `zev --setup`?



    Why are you using env variables when you don't pull them primarily from the process env?


    I’m debating changing it. I do pull in env vars to use as default values (e.g. you already have an API key set). But I might transition way from env variables.


    btw, feel free to open an issue on github :)


    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...



    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.



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


    Thanks! My main issue is that i'm lazy and although i often know approximately what i want i don't want to type a lot of words to describe it exactly. For example writing `zev 'show disk usage'` is somewhat ambiguous. Am i talking about my current folder or the harddrive? My idea was that rather than typing out what I want explicitly, i want to type the minimum amount and then just select the best of available options.




    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.


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


    ha, no, just a coincidence. Named after someone i know named Zev. But chose it because it's short and not taken on Pypi


    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.)?


    1) When you are selecting a command you get a little description at the bottom telling you what it does.

    2) this doesn’t run anything. It goes to your clipboard and you have to run it yourself

    3) this a good callout… what do u think? I’m thinking maybe ask the models to return a Boolean is_dangerous plus a small explanation and then I can display dangerous commands in red and show the warning when you select one.



    sounds like a solid plan


    Yes, this is a concern. When I built something similar (gencmd.com), I avoided the auto-run option even though it was easy to implement. imho, it's better to have a human in the loop for these.




    different use case. atuin is for past commands, whereas this uses an LLM to give you options for commands.


    Feels like this should be an extension to atuin instead of a separate tool.


    Why? Besides both involving terminal commands, they serve very different purposes.


    atuin is a collection of the past, which can be training data for a collection in the future. If I'm asking AI to essentially generate commands, my previous inputs ideally would be part of the basis.


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


    it should run outside of a virtual env and is intended to be installed locally. That said, it currently has too many dependencies (IMO) and i'm working on cutting them down to avoid conflicts.


    Use something like pipx or uv


    Newman!


    Somewhat related, here's a little project I've done with LLM: https://github.com/regnull/how.sh

    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.



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