Comments on: Understanding Shell Commands Easily Using “Explain Shell” Script in Linux

By: WeAreGeek

WeAreGeek — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:18:05 +0000

In reply to Anne.

How would that shell script be different than killall?

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:49:23 +0000

looking for a person who has an idea how to do this:

Create a bash-shell script called terminator that
terminates all processes of a name given to the shell
script as an argument.
(Guidance: pidof, ps –ef , awk)

if anyone has an idea please let me know :)

By: SDF

SDF — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 02:32:16 +0000

This is a rather lame utility that gives you very, very little that you can’t get with the ‘man’ command. As the old saying goes, this is a utility that fills a much-needed gap in the Linux world.

By: minicast

minicast — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:23:31 +0000

I had the same problem as @aligaligari
I am using Ubuntu and in my man page for curl the “–data-ur” option is not listed (only “–data-urlencode”)
However, I managed to run the explain command after changing the script as follows:

# explain.sh begins
explain () {
if [ “$#” -eq 0 ]; then
while read -p “Command: ” cmd; do
# curl -Gs “https://www.mankier.com/api/explain/?cols=”$(tput cols)–data $
curl -Gs “https://www.mankier.com/api/explain/?cols=70&q=”$cmd
done
echo “Bye!”
elif [ “$#” -eq 1 ]; then
# curl -Gs “https://www.mankier.com/api/explain/?cols=”$(tput cols) –data-ur $
curl -Gs “https://www.mankier.com/api/explain/?cols=70&q=”$1
else
echo “Usage”
echo “explain interactive mode.”
echo “explain ‘cmd -o | …’ one quoted command to explain it.”
fi
}

By: Avishek Kumar

Avishek Kumar — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:22:24 +0000

In reply to paco.

Sorry for the inconvenience @ Paco
the code is fixed. Use the new updated code.