yocli's Introduction

YoCLI

open source project, inspired by HeyCLI.com

`yo` lets you find the the CLI command you are looking for by asking in natural language

Examples

➜  ~ yo kill process by PID

Suggested command:

kill -9 <PID>

➜  ~ yo find all files containing the string 'nlml' and concatenate their contents into nlml.txt

Suggested command:

grep -r "nlml" * > nlml.txt

Or even more complicated:

➜  ~ yo find all files containing the string 'nlml' and concatenate their contents into nlml.txt, separated by three pipes '|' and another newline

Suggested command:

grep -rl nlml . | xargs -I % sh -c 'cat % | sed "s/$/\n|||\n/" >> nlml.txt'

Or maybe with FFMPEG?

➜  ~ yo reencode the video input.avi to mp4, starting from 5 seconds and ending at 25 seconds

Suggested command:

ffmpeg -i input.avi -ss 5 -t 20 -c:v libx264 -c:a aac -strict -2 output.mp4

You can also ask yo to give multiple suggestions by passing the N <num> argument:

➜  ~ yo N 3 print all filenames of files whose contents contains the string 'yes'

Suggested commands:

grep -lr "yes" *

grep -rl 'yes' .

grep -R "yes" *

Installation

You will need python3 with the requests library installed (pip3 install requests).

Get an OpenAI secret key. You can get one with $18 free credit by signing up at https://openai.com/api/.
Clone this repository.
Add these two lines to your .bashrc (or .zshrc, or equivalent):

export OAI_SECRET_KEY='xxx'
source /path/to/this/repo/yo.sh

Other notes

Check yo.py to see how the prompt is constructed. If anyone finds improvements to the prompt, feel free to make a PR!

Currently text-davinci-003 is the default model used. Requests tend to use about 100 tokens in total, so at current prices each call should cost about $0.002. That means you should be able to do about 9000 requests before using up the $18 free credit OpenAI gives you!