vaaski/howtf

quickly look up console commands using the GPT API

howtf

quickly look up console commands using the GPT API

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Synopsis

This is a pretty simple CLI to help you find that command you can never remember using the OpenAI chat completion API with either gpt-3.5-turbo or gpt-4. Usually faster than googling it.

Also comes with the neat advantage of being personalized to whatever you need. Notice how in the example above, I specifically asked to modify "Video.mov" and it automatically generated Video_stretched.mov as the output file.

Installation

Install using npm (Node.js required):

npm i -g howtf

Unless youd ou'll be prompted to enter a OpenAI API key. You can generate one here.

Usage

howtf [command]

Save your OpenAI API key so you don't have to enter it every time:

howtf -K [your API key]
# you can either pass it as an argument or enter it interactively

Examples

howtf convert input.mp4 to gif with ffmpeg
# ❯ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.gif

howtf undo last 3 commits
# ❯ git reset HEAD~3 --hard

Options

Option	Description
--help, -h	print help
--version, -v	print version
--model, -m	use model (gpt-3.5-turbo or gpt-4, you can also just pass 3 or 4)
--set-model, -M	set model and save to config
--key, -k	pass OpenAI API key once
--set-key, -K	set OpenAI API key
--config, -c	print config file location
--clear, -C	clear config file